According to various reports as well as our own Jason Calacanis' entry the other day, Internet Explorer is losing steam to Mozilla's Firefox and Opera in a big way over the last few months.
Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser continues to lose users to rivals such as Firefox and Opera, a Web analytics firm said Thursday.
Internet Explorer (IE) use has dropped 1.8 percent in the last three months, according to new data gathered by WebSideStory, a San Diego-based provider of Web metrics. Although IE still dominates the browser business, its current 93.7 share is off from a June high of 95.5 percent.
This latest data comes after a July report by WebSideStory that noted IE's share falling for the first time ever. At the time, many analysts attributed the slip to a rash of browser vulnerabilities. Those vulnerabilities haven't been stopped — this week Microsoft said yet another bug in Windows and IE 6.0 opened PCs to attack — and may yet be one of the drivers of the trend to ditch Microsoft's browser.
Assuming this is true, I can't see how these number would concern Microsoft. Sure they need to cut it off before those numbers slip to 5 to 10 percent. But they'd better figure out why, before they decide what to do because the IE team seems to be a bit lost these days.
