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Internet Explorer 10 Close to Becoming the Number One Browser Worldwide


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Even though Microsoft will soon debut Windows 8.1 and Internet Explorer 11, version 10 of the company’s in-house browser continues its growth, gaining more users every single month.

If we are to judge by Net Applications’ market share statistics, Internet Explorer 10 is very close to becoming the number one browser in the world, overtaking all the other builds currently available out there.

At this point, Internet Explorer 8 has a market share of 21.39 percent, while IE10 comes in second with no less than 19.45 percent of the market.

Chrome is the only non-IE browser on the podium, as 12.82 percent of computers were running this particular browser last month, while Firefox 23 is only fourth with 11.57 percent.

IE9 and IE6 are also among the most popular browsers out there with 9.45 and 4.86 percent of the market, respectively.

Internet Explorer 10’s growth should not be surprising at all. Microsoft has indeed installed IE10 as the default browser in Windows 8, but the company has also made this particular version available for users of Windows 7, currently the number one operating system in the world.

At the same time, Microsoft has aggressively promoted Internet Explorer, claiming that it’s the fastest, most reliable and the most secure browser ever released by the tech giant.

Windows 8 users are provided not only with the standard desktop version of the browser, but also with a Metro flavor that makes the most of the Modern UI and lets users browse the Internet using Internet Explorer.

At this point, IE10 is pretty much the only viable option for Windows RT and Windows 8 users who want to use Metro to browse the web, as Mozilla is still working on a Modern port of its application. Firefox Metro is scheduled to be released in January 2014.


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Internet Explorer 10 and 11 deserve the 1st place :) they're much faster than Chrome, Firefox or Opera!

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this may be because it is required to use for microsoft updates... i never use it.... chrome and Firefox here...and i think most people here don't either...kind of scewed usage results i think as i do not really know anyone that actually used internet explorer of any stripe and it is just a browser that is on all microsoft OS that cannot be taken off and is by default set to auto update

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dMog - who knows... I've used Chrome too and Firefox... (mostly Firefox) but since Windows 8 came out and I saw how fast IE10 is I switched to IE and I'm pretty happy with it :) now using IE11 on Win8.1 but I have Firefox installed as well, because 2 or 3 websites I use are a bit buggy with Internet Explorer 11... even nsaneforums are buggy... can't use the Quote button :(

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Internet Explorer 10 is really fast on my machine and it is very safe from a technical point of view, but I am still a Chromium user.

Looking forward to 11

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What!!!

Are you saying that Nokia is the Number One Mobile Worldwide???

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

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if you have faster internet, everything would look faster :)

it only close to number one usage but still, it's not my fav browser :sorry:

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At this point, IE10 is pretty much the only viable option for Windows RT and Windows 8 users who want to use Metro to browse the web, as Mozilla is still working on a Modern port of its application. Firefox Metro is scheduled to be released in January 2014.

Why mention Windows RT anyway? Firefox Metro will not be of any use to Windows RT users even when it does become available.

Bad news... internet explorer shouln't be number one browser.

Not trolling but genuinely interested - instead of a throwaway comment can you provide proper reasons why this should be the case? Unless you're simply being a Microsoft hater or anti-MS fanboy, surely there are good reasons for your assertion.

Here's my personal opinion and two cents for whatever it's worth. I do web development and like any webdev worth their salt I found IE6 to be a great browser back when it was released (no, not joking in the least). It had many pioneering features as well as improvements on things MS copied from Netscape et al. We all know about the anti-competitive crap that MS pulled back then, but that doesn't change the fact that IE6 was indeed a great browser for its time.

Unfortunately, MS' short-sightedness and also extreme arrogance (the same traits that saw them miss the internet wave, dismiss the iPhone etc. etc.) ensured that once they became the dominant force in the browser market they simply stopped innovating. Indeed, the IE team itself was pared down and hardly any resources were allocated to it any more. That was their biggest mistake, because over the years as technology marched on it became very painfully apparent to us devs that despite its obvious pluses, IE6 had significant problems as well. Eventually the 5-year gap between IE6 and 7 was a criminal and idiotic misstep by the the upper management at MS, but it also had a great side-effect for everyone, devs and end-users alike.

The rise of fantastic alternatives like Firefox, Chrome etc. was a direct result of MS' stupid and stubborn refusal to see what was happening right under its very nose. Devs and users both clamored for more standards-compliant secure full-featured browsers, and easy extensibility in the form of third-party add-ons became a critical feature. Thanks to the competition and faced with a once unimaginable loss of market-share, eventually MS did wake up, come to their senses and start working on IE once more, and to a large extent with IE7+ they have addressed the first issue.

So what we have now with IE10 (and soon 11) is a much-improved browser that in terms of being standards-compliant is a massive improvement over previous versions (putting aside for the moment the question of what constitutes 'standards' in the first place and the clusterf**k that is the standardization process). Everyone needs to be extremely grateful to Mozilla, Google, Apple, Opera and all the rest who pushed MS and each other to respond, resulting in a better web experience for all of us.

Given this state of affairs and the fact that fanboyism aside the IE of today is a genuinely decent, performant, reasonably secure (no browser is perfect in this regard) and mostly standards-compliant browser, why would you or anyone object to it regaining the market-share it had previously ceded? Without getting into arguments over whether the market-share stats are even correct, or the fact that the mobile and not traditional PC market is where all the action is today (and IE's barely a blip on the radar there), would you care to specify what you have against any particular desktop browser winning the race (or for that matter why the hell it even matters so much)? One cannot honestly claim that bundling with the OS automatically means IE will retain its dominant position. We have seen how precipitously IE usage dropped as first Firefox and then Chrome took over, so if it really is clawing its way back, surely it's a sign that people who have actually used it of late find it much improved and perfectly adequate for their needs? Are you telling me you take all these users for ignorant idiots, or want to dictate to them which browser they should use?

None of this, BTW, implies that MS has a free pass now to again sit back and relax after a job well done. Security is always an issue with all the browsers (although a modicum of common sense goes a long way), and MS simply cannot afford to stop improving a product that, while not bad, is still IMO not really the best. The lack of easy extensibility seriously hampers IE, although personally TBH the release of AdBlock Plus addresses one of my major concerns with the browser. MS still needs to provide the requisite APIs and better hooks so ABP/IE can be on par with ABP/FF, but certainly the situation is much improved now over what it was when IE6 was still ruling the roost long after it had outlived its usefulness and become an albatross around every webdev's neck (still the case for some unfortunately, but thankfully I have not had to deal with it for some time now).

As for the state of the competition today on Windows (the way I see it of course), Opera after years of struggle (despite being a superior browser in many ways) gave up and switched to Google's WebKit fork Blink and V8. Chrome itself has never been a personal darling of mine despite its innovations due to Google's privacy and other policies. Safari/Win was perhaps as much of an abomination as IE/Mac was, and similarly ditched after years of struggle. Firefox is lumbering along and remains my browser of choice by a thin margin purely thanks to third-party add-ons despite several aggravating UI changes, high resource usage and a disconcerting tendency to crash of late on my secondary PC. IE is a perfectly decent usable alternative to FF (and often the only choice in an enterprise environment), especially with the availability of ABP. Indeed the number one issue with IE today is ironically ancient or badly coded or non standards-compliant sites and webapps that use various hacks to overcome the shortcomings of older versions, and consequently break when faced with much more standards-compliant releases such as IE10+ (which is why IE identifies itself as being more "like Gecko" nowadays). All in all, purely from an end-user's perspective as long as the browsers keep competing and improving I for one am happy to have more choice, and couldn't care less which one theoretically has more market-share.

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