[thelist] Explorer market share down in 2003?

Simon Perry simon.perry at si-designs.co.uk
Fri Jan 30 11:04:46 CST 2004


Joshua Olson wrote:

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>From: "James Aylard" <evolt at pixelwright.com>
>Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 11:29 AM
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>>>http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist_nov03.html
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>>chart suggests a drop in usage of "other" browsers. However, a number of
>>apparent quirks in the trend lines -- the the odd spike in IE 6 usage
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>around
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>>3/03 mirrored by an equivalent drop in IE 5 usage, followed by
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>"corrections"
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>>in the trends of each, all preceded by a precipitous drop in the "Other"
>>trend line -- suggests some kind of wackiness taking place, and makes me
>>wonder whether even Google doesn't hold such statistics too dear.
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>James,
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>I think the wackiness in the IE usage is attributed to, if I recall
>correctly, that many people switched to IE 6 and then switched back to 5/5.5
>after some initial problems with compatibility.  I seem to recall some news
>to that effect... perhaps having to do with some people being turned away
>because the default security settings in IE 6 broke their favorite sites.
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>Can anybody corroborate my blurry memory?
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Sounds correct to me. Those security settings broke most webmail 
clients, including hotmail, if memory serves. It also played havoc with 
personal firewalls, ZoneAlarm in particular.

Simon



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