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That's going to be tricky - they would have to get nearly all IE6/7/8 users updated, and reverse Chrome's growth and convert back a number of Firefox and Chrome
by mbrubeck 16y ago
That's going to be tricky - they would have to get nearly all IE6/7/8 users updated, and reverse Chrome's growth and convert back a number of Firefox and Chrome users, if they want to IE9 to outnumber Firefox+Chrome. See http://gs.statcounter.com/ http://gs.statcounter.com/
- melling 16y agoI don't think FF has 30% market share. I used these numbers. http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=0 http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=0 Vista and Win7 have about 30%, and it will grow because you can't buy XP.
- ZeroGravitas 16y agoThe good thing about the statcounter site is you can narrow by geopgraphic area for free. If you do that you'll see that a big bunch of IE use is in China, where it doesn't matter if you can't buy XP any more because most of them didn't buy it even when you could. Here's their OS breakdown for China: http://gs.statcounter.com/#os-CN-monthly-201003-201102 http://gs.statcounter.com/#os-CN-monthly-201003-201102 Though interestingly, since the last time I looked, IE8 has been on a tear in China, nearly catching IE6. I wonder what caused that: http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser_version-CN-monthly-201003-201102 http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser_version-CN-monthly-201003... Overall I think it's more realistic to expect Chrome, Firefox and IE (all versions) to be basically sharing the global market 3 ways by the end of the year, which is somewhat different from your prediction of IE9 equalling Firefox and Chrome. I guess we'll see soon enough.