Statcounter.com: IE market share drops under 50%
Microsoft Internet Explorer looses users to Google Chrome.
Google Chromes success in the world wide browser market is analog to Microsoft IEs loss. Regarding to the world wide browser statistics of Statcounter.com the trend is obvious: Over the last 12 month Chrome went from under 4 % to over 11 % while the Internet Explorer dropped from over 58 % to under 50 %.
At the same time the rest of the market stayed very stable. Firefox and Safari where growing each less than 1%. Opera had a slight loss off less than 1%.
The statistics show clearly, that Chrome was able to gain Internet Explorer users which were not willing to switch to alternative internet browsers before.
