March 2, 2011

Internet Explorer 9 RC gets downloaded 11 million times



Since the day it was released, in February 10th, the IE9 Release Candidate was downloaded 11 million times. Windows Team Blog also took note that both IE8 and IE9 grew in terms of it's global market share. The IE9 browser, including the Beta version, has been download 36 million times.




Of course, together with this report, global market share for the IE as a whole grows which is good news for the once the King of browsing. With really tough competition with Google's Chrome and Mozilla's Firefox, Microsoft still has a long way to go to get back.
"Net Applications also reported this month that Internet Explorer share increased by 0.86% across Windows. Across all operating systems, IE share also grew 0.78%. In some part, this is due to the geographic weighting change according to Net Applications. However, when adjusted using the older weighting, IE8 and 9 actually show even stronger growth on Windows: up 1.31% (versus 1.13% using the new February weighting) – or over three times Chrome’s 0.42% growth. We continue to measure our share progress relative to our addressable base, and in this case our addressable base is Windows."

Source: WindowsTeamBlog



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