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Microsoft's Browsers May Have Hit Rock Bottom

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

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

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: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 05 2017, @10:30PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 05 2017, @10:30PM (#449967)

    The thing I hate most is UI guessing.
    Where should i type the URL?
    Oh wait! no hell! there really?
    How could you know... there was nothing there!!!!

    so puzzling!

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 05 2017, @10:39PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 05 2017, @10:39PM (#449973)

    Wait till you learn to write web pages...

  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 05 2017, @10:40PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 05 2017, @10:40PM (#449974)

    I had the same problem Safari recently, kept looking for the search bar then remembered that a lot of browsers now combine search and URL. Seriously lame, I don't want some mistyped crap sent to a search engine. Its almost as bad as the ISPs who take a bad DNS lookup and inject their own "search engine sales" crap.

    • (Score: 2) by Refugee from beyond on Friday January 06 2017, @06:28PM

      by Refugee from beyond (2699) on Friday January 06 2017, @06:28PM (#450339)

      > I don't want some mistyped crap sent to a search engine.

      You don’t, but they do.

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by PiMuNu on Friday January 06 2017, @11:22AM

    by PiMuNu (3823) on Friday January 06 2017, @11:22AM (#450172)

    My interpretation: They want to blend search and URL in the UI so they can steal the data of every website you go to and send it to bung. Kids nowadays grow up thinking google is the same as URL field (to my embarrassment, my son calls the URL field "google", and he is old enough to know better).