According to research, Microsoft Internet Explorer is still the biggest winner in the market

According to a set of data provided by Microsoft software testing company Devil Hill, the popularity of Microsoft's IE browser market far exceeds expectations.
About 57% of the PCs monitored by the company have installed at least two browsers, of which IE is almost a mandatory browser, another browser may be Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera Software Opera or Apple's Safari that supports Windows.

Craig Barth, chief technology officer of Devil Hill, said performance. networkXpnet) data reveals the coexistence of multiple browsers in enterprises.

Craig Barth also said that more than 32% of the PCs monitored and run by Devil Hill use both IE and Firefox, which only lags behind Microsoft in the browser market share rankings, second place. Google Chrome is closely following Mozilla's Firefox, taking the lead in the second-line browser market. About 18% of the systems both install IE and Chrome. Opera and Safari are far behind Firefox and Chrome. Only 4% and 3% of machines install IE and choose to install these two browsers respectively.

Barth believes that the research data poses a challenge to the traditional view on the browser market share. Generally, people are used to referencing the data provided by NetApplications.com to analyze the browser market share, the company used to determine the market share of each browser by measuring the traffic of 40,000 websites.

Barth wrote in his blog: "Although the market share of IE has declined in recent years, considering the compatibility, development habits, and internal deployment standards of enterprise applications, as before, IE will be the mainstay of the Internet browser market."

"Users can also choose to install other browsers other than IE, but not all systems can adopt this approach. They still force users to use IE to access internal applications or websites of the company, other browsers such as Firefox or Chrome can be used only when they access external websites of the company."

Because Internet traffic research companies usually only measure the data used by Web browsers in the public part of the website, what they see is not the actual use data of IE browsers. Based on this data, of course, the market share of each browser cannot be accurately determined.

For example, according to the latest data from NetApplications, Internet Explorer's global usage in the last month was approximately 62%, down about 10% from the same period in previous years. In contrast, XPnet said that nearly 80% of PCs run Microsoft's IE browser.

He also said, "enterprises are the biggest guarantee that Microsoft continues to take the lead in the market. Microsoft does not intend to give up Internet Explorer, even for older versions of Internet Explorer, microsoft also hopes to continue to occupy the market by patching security vulnerabilities. In many enterprises, IE is still the main browser ."

Barth also pointed out that Google's Chrome has grown rapidly. In the past six months, Chrome's market usage has doubled. Among all monitoring PCs, about 24% of users choose to run Chrome. This 24% includes both Internet Explorer and Chrome users, which accounts for 18% of all users ).

In addition, Barth also expressed concern about Firefox. performance. networkXpnet) data shows that users' market share of Firefox has been sluggish.