What is the future of Internet Explorer? Does it have one?
CNN reports that IE is no longer the world's most-used browser. Its replacement is Chrome, Google's upstart Web browser.
br /> StatCounter CEO Aodhan Cullen said in a blog post:"Looking at the daily stats, Chrome 14 and 15 have been overtaking IE8 at weekends since the beginning of October. However, Chrome 15 overtook IE8 for the first time during the five day working week, in week commencing 5th December. It looks as if people favour Chrome on weekends at home but office commercial use has now caught up." In the US Internet Explorer 8 continues to be the most popular browser version with 27.0% for week commencing 5th December compared to 18.1% for Chrome 15. However, in the UK Chrome 15 overtook IE8 in the week commencing November 7th. Last week (commencing 5th December) Chrome 15 had 24.7% in the UK compared to IE8 on 21.1%."
Trefis Team at Forbes even speculates that Microsoft might even have to kill IE to get make Bing the default search engine.
"While Internet Explorer has always been and still remains Firefox's greatest competitor, Microsoft still needs all the help it can get to make Bing a force to be reckoned with in the search engine space, which is currently dominated by Google. While Bing has been making some inroads in the U.S. market, it still has only around 4% share in the global search market. This climbs to around 10% after adding Yahoo's market share given their agreement. Google on the other hand has around 84% share. This could mean that Microsoft would be more than willing to pay Mozilla to make Bing the default search provider in Firefox as it would definitely help increase Bing's market share. Microsoft has a track record of using enormous amounts of cash to grab additional market share, at least when it comes to Bing."
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