According to foreign media reports, after Microsoft released IE10 on the Windows 7 platform in late February this year, the browser market share originally developed for Windows 8 increased significantly by two times. In addition, this growth momentum continues.
In the months when IE10 was launched, it was slow to grow because it only supported win8. However, after logging on to Windows 7, everything changed. In April, its market share increased by 3.09% and reached 6.04%. This is more than IE9's maximum monthly growth of 2.6%. The market share of IE9 dropped by 2.45%. However, the bad news for Web developers is that the market share of the old version of Internet Explorer has not changed much. IE6 is stable at 6.26%. IE7 dropped slightly to 1.82%, while IE8 fell 0.15 age points to 23.18%. Less than half of users (43%) are using the new ie browsers IE9 and IE10 ).
However, the desktop browser market share has not changed much. IE accounted for 55.81% of the market share of half of the desktop system, down 0.02 in the past 12 months; Firefox increased by 0.09% to 20.30%; Chrome fell by 0.1%, with a market share of 16.35%; safari increased by 0.07% to 5.38%; Opera dropped by 0.01% to 1.73%. The market share of the main desktop browsers has remained stable. After the rise of Firefox and Chrome browsers, IE's market share has fallen sharply from the peak period, but it has basically ended. Firefox continues its second position. Chrome browser, which was once expected to surpass Firefox, has begun to drop its market share.