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posted by on Thursday January 05 2017, @04:33PM   Printer-friendly
from the do-we-still-hate-microsoft dept.

Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) and Edge browsers may be near the bottom of their unprecedented crash in user share, measurements published Sunday show.

Analytics vendor Net Applications reported that the user share of IE and Edge -- an estimate of the proportion of the world's personal computer owners who ran those browsers -- dropped by seven-tenths of a percentage point in December, falling to a combined 26.2%.

That seven-tenths of a point decline was notable because it was less than half that of the browsers' average monthly reductions over the last 12, six and three months, which were 1.9, 1.8 and 1.5 points, respectively. The slowly-shrinking averages over the three different spans supported the idea that IE and Edge may be reaching rock bottom.

Microsoft's browser collapse has been unparalleled. In 2016, IE and Edge -- Net Applications pours their user share into the same "bucket" -- shed 20.1 points, representing 43% of its December 2015 share. No other browser has bled that much user share that quickly, with the possible exception of Netscape Navigator in the 1990s.

I know we love to hate Microsoft in general and IE in particular, but is Edge that bad?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 05 2017, @05:49PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 05 2017, @05:49PM (#449830)

    I wish I had video recordings of all the people who told me IE (edge is new, but still MS) would be dominant forever. HAH! Don't fall for absolutes, they rarely hold true for long. Unless you're in the hard sciences, most of those absolutes are pretty safe :P

  • (Score: 2) by Gaaark on Thursday January 05 2017, @11:07PM

    by Gaaark (41) on Thursday January 05 2017, @11:07PM (#449989) Journal

    I wish i had video recordings of all the people who told me IBM would be dominant forever. Same is going for MS... the only thing keeping MS 'dominant' is it's office software and that they have enough money to keep pushing it hard.
    That too will fall.

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