Extreme Trix

Well, this is embarrasing that world’s most used web browser – Internet explorer’s market share is dipping down day by day. Not only in India, but in European countries too. Actually its market share is dipping three times faster in European countries as compared to India and other countries. A study by the Irish metrics firm StatCounter says:

The IE, as it’s ubiquitously called, has lost almost 20% market share in India in the past two years, even as Google’s Chrome and Mozilla’s Firefox make strident foray.

In India in later half of the year 2008 the percentage of computers having Internet Explorer deafult was around 70% where now in 2010 it is just 51%

IE Market Share

Why is it losing Market Share?

According to me the main reason for loosing its market share could be the Internet explorer six. Now you might be thinking that how come IE Six could be the reason for it. It could be the reason because it is the default browser in Windows XP and most of the users still prefer to use XP as it is said to be the most user-friendly operating system ever designed. IE7 was released with Microsoft Office 2007 and Windows Vista. Windows Vista wasn’t a big hit just like Windows XP or 200 because it was not so user-friendly and used to slow down the computer (frankly speaking didn’t get any problem in Windows Vista, don’t know why others didn’t like it. I am on Windows Vista Ultimate for six months and yet not got even a single problem related anything). Most of the people didn’t like it and shifted back to Windows XP, which had IE 6. IE Six wasn’t at all good. Tech savvies guys could easily upgrade it latest version, but for no-techies don’t care at all about the browser they care what they have to do. So they installed other light and reliable browsers like Opera and Chrome. This could be one main reason for losing market share.

I think Microsoft had already taken some steps to get back their old position and IE market share back. They tied up IE Eight with their new Windows Seven, but because of that the company had to mandate a ballot screen of its rival web browsers in European countries – Chrome, Safari, Firefox & Opera {their shares may be increasing cause of this (Firefox 55%, Chrome 31% and Safari 4%)}

Few days back I got a news that they are taking web browsers now seriously so they are working on IE Nine too which would be faster and secure as compared to the previous versions of IE.

No one can say what’s going to happen in this war of web browsers, we can just wait.

What do you think about this? Drop it down!

<Credits: Image, Report>

Related posts: