Article: IE 8 Is Top Browser, Google Chrome Is Rising Fast

[padawan]

Hmm..

As it is:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology...e8-top-browser

Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 has finally become the world's most-used browser, according to Net Applications' figures based on monitoring website usage. IE8 has taken over from IE6, which has been hit by the decline in the use of Windows XP.

In January 2010, NetApps reckons IE8 had 22.31% of the market, with IE6 on 20.07%. Firefox 3.5 took third place with 17.01%, ahead of IE7 (14.58%), Firefox 3.0 (5.29%), Google Chrome (3.92%) and Apple Safari (3.55%). Actually, IE8's lead is even larger if its 3% market share in "compatibility mode" is counted.

Still adding the numbers its a whopping 60% (roughly) IE share.

It could be an encouraging sign that finally people are looking browser choices (non-technical etc), making informed decisions, trying things out. On the other hand, another way of looking at it 1/3 of people are still using some form of IE. So all of those people have what is essentially their default browser in IE. Heck that is probably the case, people still use (or forced to use) IE6???