While Microsoft recently publicized the 100 millionth installation of Internet Explorer 7, Web measurement firm WebSideStory has indicated that IE7 is simply replacing oolder editions of IE. IE7 has not had an impact on Firefox’s ability to increase market share.
WebSideStory indicated that Microsoft’s quotation of its numbers was correct, but didn’t tell the whole story.
Geoff Johnston, an analyst with the Web metrics company, said that the growth of IE7 “… seems to be exclusively at the expense of IE 6,” says Johnston. “It’s not eating into the Firefox share at all.”
Johnston indicated that Firefox’s share of the U.S. browser market is at 14%, and has continued to grow each of the last three months. “I thought that IE 7 might flatten Firefox’s growth, but it’s not taken a hit from IE. All the movement there has been internal, from IE 6 users upgrading.”
Source: CRN
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