firefoxBad news for Microsoft. The Hero of browser, Internet Explorer (IE) lost market share back in March 2009. While close competitors , IE, Mozilla Firefox and hold it up.

Launch Internet Explorer 8 that has not been a significant interest to reach consumers. According to data released last Net Applications, the market share of IE has decreased below 67 percent, the lowest in the last 2 years.

Since April 2007 IE powers has lost more than 12 percent. Meanwhile, Mozilla Firefox increased 7 percent. According NetApplication, in March 2009 on the 22.05 percent of the Firefox browser market.

Different with Apple’s browser, Safari is also the more shining in March to reach 8.23 percent market share. Google Chrome’s also quite a success because although still relatively new reach has 1.23 percent market share position, which means skip Opera.

Quoted from eFluxmedia, Tuesday (7/4/2009), Microsoft seems to need to think hard to maintain dominance of IE because later, the operating system Windows 7 planned to have the option for consumers to negate IE. But as is known, a lot of IE dominance increase system by bundling with Windows.


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