Net Applications announced its monthly website browser usage statistics for January 2006 and it showed that Microsoft IE regained some of its lost share, going from 85.05% in December 2005 to 85.31% in January 2006 in the browser war.
Nonetheless , in 2005, a growing number of people have been abandoning Internet Explorer for Firefox, concerned largely about IE's fabled security holes and intrigued by Firefox's advanced features. I also get sick of patching my IE numerous times in a year.
If you like new things, you can also check out the new Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 Preview
which I admit doesn't really come close to the open source browsers in terms of stability yet. That's why its a Beta version
2006 could mark the return of Microsoft as the 'hot' technology company in the news. With all the recent Google setbacks (could it be that they are stretching themselves a bit too thin?), Microsoft may be the company in the best position to take advantage with a new operating system, new ad strategy and the much awaited update to IE due this year. In a striking turn of events, January 2006 browser usage market share numbers reported by HitsLink (www.hitslink.com?source=PRW) showed IE halting, at least temporarily, its gradual slide during 2005. As a matter of fact, IE regained some of its lost share, going from 85.05% in December 2005 to 85.31% in January 2006. Amazingly, the small gain came at the expense of each of the other major browsers. Even Firefox and Apple Safari had small dips in their usage percentage.
Microsoft Internet Explorer Gaining Ground Against Firefox source
Net Applications is a provider of Web-based applications that measure, monitor and market Web sites for Small to Medium Enterprises (SME).
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