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Google Considers Preinstalling Chrome On New PCs
Today @ PC World — ... from online research firm Net Applications shows Chrome's market share dropped another 0.04 percent in October, following a 0.22 percent fall ...

Firefox Market Share Breaks 20%
Maximum PC — ... 20% market share amongst all web browsers. This move dropped Microsoft’s Internet Explorer down to roughly 70%. Thanks to some data published by Net Applications , we’ve got some exact numbers regarding this matter. Official information for the month of November list Firefox with 20.78% of the market share, up from 19.97% in October. Internet Explorer is now holding only 69.77% of the share, with Apple’s Safari holding a respectable 6.57% and third place. Google’s fancy new flagship browser has been moving fast, hurdling over Opera’s 0.71%, with their own share of 0.83%. If ...

Projection: IE’s Days of Domination Are Numbered
Today @ PC World — ... by tech analysis firm Net Applications show IE holding 67.55 percent of the worldwide browser market in January of 2009. That’s down a full 7.92 percent from the same time one year ago. The stats show IE steadily falling almost every month in the year-long period. Over the same time, Firefox has been gaining ground and growing its global userbase. The Mozilla browser commanded 21.53 percent of the worldwide market in January 2009, Net Applications’ data shows, up 0.19 percent from the previous month and 4.55 percent from the same time in 2008. Safari, Chrome, and Opera also ...

IE 8's Poor Reception Not a Good Sign For Microsoft
Today @ PC World — ... to Microsoft's new offering. IE 8 By The Numbers IE 8 managed to break the 2 percent mark within a day of its release last Thursday, according to tracking data by analytics firm Net Applications . It grew slowly over the weekend, topping out at 2.59 percent of the overall browser market at 3 a.m. (EDT) Sunday. From there, things started heading downhill. With a steady decline, Internet Explorer 8 dropped down to 1.86 percent of the market by Monday morning. It's bounced up and down a bit since then, but thus far, there's been no sign of a second wave of supporters rushing to ...

February 2013 - The date when Firefox could pass Internet Explorer
Hardware 2.0 — ... . Then something struck me - the market share growth of Firefox and the decline of IE is almost linear. Note : The data that I look at most often is Net Applications . This company draws browser and OS data based on 160 million visitors per month visiting client websites, whic means that the data is drawn from a variety of websites. I think that this is more representative than data drawn from a single website, or a group of websites on a similar subject. Interesting. I downloaded the data and plugged it all into Excel so I could take a closer look. I added a trendline for ...

Friday Challenge: What's your take on OS/browser market share trends?
Hardware 2.0 — ... I talk a lot about trends here, and it’s always a bone of contention because it seems that everyone has their own take on which trends to keep an eye on which to ignore, what they mean and what they don’t. Here’s my take on trends. The data that I look at most often is Net Applications . This company draws browser and OS data based on 160 million visitors per month visiting client websites, which means that the data is drawn from a variety of websites. I think that this is more representative than data drawn from a single website, or a group of websites on a similar subject. ...