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Google Chrome overtakes Internet Explorer worldwide
Posted By Sam,
May 21st, 2012
It looks like it’s the end of Microsoft’s domination in worldwide web browser usage with Google Chrome usurping IE. According to StatCounter the most used web browser in the world is now Google Chrome overtaking Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and accruing 31.88% of the share of users compared to IE’s 31.47%.
Google Chrome’s recent rise has been verging on the rampant, gaining major ground on IE over the last 12 months. Google’s advance and IE’s decline has been extremely rapid within this area with Microsoft losing 25% of ground on Google in less than a year. This decline by Microsoft could in some way be linked to a similar decline in PC sales, the device to many that is synonymous with Windows and the IE family of web browsers.
Worldwide web browser share - Google overtakes IE
Google overtakes IE across the world according to StatCounter.
Bad news day for Internet Explorer
Posted By Jon,
December 17th, 2008
The old adage “All PR is good PR” can not possibly be the case if you are Internet Explorer this week. Yes any PR man on a normal day would give his right arm for a news splash on the BBC Homepage and countless other sites, but not today, not if you read the words.
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