[Sigia-l] IE Loses MORE Market Share

[Boniface Lau]

> From: Listera
>  
> I'd love to be able to post updates like this every quarter.:-)
[...]
> 
> Microsoft's browser has dropped by 1.8 percentage points over the
> past three months to 93.7 percent of the market, according to data
> provided Wednesday by Web analytics vendor WebSideStory Inc.

As a developer, I too would like to see users with better browsers.
However, the momentum behind the 1.8% figure tells us quite a
different story...

Of the 1.8% drop in the past three months, 1% took place in the one
month time from June/4 To July/6:

    http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1622828,00.asp

Had the same momentum been continued into July and August, we would
have seen something like a 3% drop in three months. Any yet, we saw
only 1.8%. IOW, in July and August, the drop was only 0.8% - not even
half of the expected 2% for those two months.

Thus, the 1.8% figure indicates a significant drop in the momentum of
moving away from IE. If I were to count on the IE drop, I wouldn't be
smiling at all at that figure, let alone "love" posting it. ;-)

Just to add depth to perception.


Boniface