Internet Explorer loses more market share

Microsoft's venerable Internet Explorer saw a considerable dip in its market share in December, garnering just 68.15 percent of web surfers who were monitored in December. This is a steep decrease from a high of 71.27 percent in October, and just below 70 percent in November. This is based on preliminary figures from recent reports by Net Applications. Indeed, IE's share has slipped considerably from about 75 percent a year ago, at the start of 2008.

In contrast, rival Firefox saw an increase of 0.56 percent, bringing it to 21.34 percent and Safari gained 0.80 percent, bringing it to 7.93 percent. Chrome too, gained 0.21 percent to break through the 1 percent barrier at 1.04 percent. What will the percentages look like in 2009? With Opera 10 and Internet Explorer 8 slated for release in the coming months, only time will tell.

For more on this story:
- check out this article at Ars Technica

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