According to foreign media reports, according to the latest statistics released by the market research company Net Applications, although Microsoft launched the IE 8.0 browser, it still failed to prevent the decline in Internet Explorer market share. In April this year, the IE market share declined by 0.72%, hitting a new low in 10 years.
Net Applications statistics show that in April this year, the market share of IE browser was 66.10%, less than 66.82% of last month. Meanwhile, Mozilla's Firefox browser's market share rose from March in 22.05% to 22.48%. Apple's Safari browser's market share declined slightly, from 8.23% to 8.21%. Operabrowser's market share dropped from 0.70% to 0.68%, and Google Chrome's market share was 1.42%.
Net Applications statistics also show that in April this year, the market share of IE browser fell to 60.90% in a day; Firefox browser had a market share of more than 25% in the past two days. In addition, in April this year, the market share of IE 7 browsers was 44.51%, down 2.05 age points from the previous month. The market share of IE 6 browsers was 18.36%, down 0.86 age points from the previous month. Internet Explorer 8's market share for the month was 3.99%, an increase of 2.16 age points from the previous month.
Net Applications also provided a report on operating system shares in April, in which Apple Mac OS X dropped from 9.77% last month to 9.73%, but is still in the second place, linux and iPhone operating systems both increased by 0.1 age points, 1.02% and 0.70% respectively, ranking third and fourth in the operating system market. Although Windows is still at the top of the list with 87.90% market share, its market share is still declining.
- Baidu joins hands with Microsoft to launch the "Special Edition" IE8 Browser
- New Web development features of IE8
- IE8 shares reduced to 1.86%, a large number of users returned to IE7