Is IE Usage Share Collapsing? 575
je ne sais quoi writes "Net Applications normally releases its statistics for browser and operating system usage share on the first of every month. This month, however, the data has not shown up — only a cryptic message stating they are reviewing the data for inexplicable statistical variations and that it will be available soon. Larry Dignan at ZDNet has a blog post that might explain what is happening: Statcounter has released some data that shows a precipitous drop in IE browser use in North America, to the benefit of Firefox, Safari, and Chrome. At the end of May, StatCounter shows IE usage share (for versions 6, 7, and 8 combined) at around 64%; at the beginning of June it is now about 56% — an astounding 8% drop in one month. We should keep in mind the difficulties in estimating browser usage share: this could very well be a change in how browsers report themselves, or some other statistical anomaly. So it will probably be healthy to remain skeptical until trend this is confirmed by other organizations. Have any of you seen drops in IE usage share for Web-sites you administer?"
Segment and conquer (Score:5, Funny)
Re:typo in summary (Score:5, Funny)
No problem, Noone reads the summary.
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Re:It was to be expected (Score:1, Funny)
And some people will never be educated. They have to actually die to rid the world of their ignorance.
hmm.... it's summer? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:In utter disarray? (Score:5, Funny)
Did it loose 73% of its core developer?
I dunno, but what I'm interested in is what they did with the other 27% of him.
Re:typo in summary (Score:5, Funny)
Peter Noone, formerly of the band Herman's Hermits, gets blamed for everything. Apparently gives a shit. [encycloped...matica.com]
Re:In utter disarray? (Score:3, Funny)
Obviously, they tighted the other 27%.
But that's sexist to assume it's a him.
I'm interested with what they did with the other 27% of her.
Or, since we don't know the state of the core developer, perhaps we should be interested in what they did with the other 13.5% of him and the other 13.5% of her.
Or something. It's a little late in the day for me to be recalling Schroedinger.
Re:It was to be expected (Score:3, Funny)
I think he'll be OK. There are a lot of stupid people out there...
Re:typo in summary (Score:5, Funny)
There's a summary now?
I was making do with the first eight characters of the headlines.
So, in response to "Is IE Us", I'll have to say no. No it isn't.
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Who is this Noone fellow?
I wish I had mod points. The parent's post is pretty well on topic. My first reaction to the grandparent's post was that "Noone" was an intentional typo, since it was replying to a post about a typo. Now I'm not so sure.
OK, now I'm replying to a post about a typo that was in another post about a typo. I hope my post doesn't have any typos...
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Hmm (Score:3, Funny)
Or maybe NetApps just came up with a creative way to earn more money from ads by delaying the release and having people come back every day for one week to check if the data is already there...
Well, why not. It's ok. But let's not misinterpret that.
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I wish I had mod points. The parent's post is pretty well on topic. My first reaction to the grandparent's post was that "Noone" was an intentional typo, since it was replying to a post about a typo. Now I'm not so sure.
OK, now I'm replying to a post about a typo that was in another post about a typo. I hope my post doesn't have any typos...
I counted 6 including the subject.
Re:typo in summary (Score:5, Funny)
You read the tags? I just blindly comment without even reading the post I'm replying to.
Re:hmm.... it's summer? (Score:3, Funny)
Not too mention everyone who uses IE at work is taking their vacation!
Its not people switching browsers, its switching off!
(probably an innaccurate statement, I haven't even looked at the numbers)
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Have no fear, the report will be posted (Score:1, Funny)
As soon as Microsoft's check clears the bank.
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Cousin of Anonymous Cowardon.
I've seen a huge drop in IE... (Score:3, Funny)
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I don't know. THIRD BASE!!!
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No, ocularDeathRay, not exactly. I'm not a good guesser at all.
Though it may at times seem like I'm responding to other people's posts-- like where you mention that I knew he read the tags-- I assure you that all of my posts are just random rants without any attention paid to the posts I'm responding to. If the response seems appropriate, it's just a wild coincidence. And yes, Linux is awesome.
See! I just said "Linux is awesome" even though that's completely irrelevant to what we're talking about. Why would I even say that until I had no idea what we were talking about? I bet you feel silly now.
Re:It's because IE 6 support was droped on some si (Score:5, Funny)
In fairness, Slashdot displays things badly in Firefox 3.0. And Safari. And Opera. And Chrome. And probably Mosaic if you gave it a spin.
Please, just give me back the old site.
Re:typo in summary (Score:5, Funny)
You read the web page? I just drink a fifth of Jack, bang on the keyboard, and let the moderators sort it out.
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Re:In utter disarray? (Score:3, Funny)
But that's sexist to assume it's a him.
I'm interested with what they did with the other 27% of her.
Well, he was a he, before he had that 27% removed.
He was also quite well endowed, apparently.
Re:Slashdot browser shares?? (Score:5, Funny)
Firefox: 13.45%
Safari: 4.23%
Chrome: 6.97%
Lynx: 22.43%
Self-created web browser: 23.12%
No browser - reading HTML directly: 14.22%
No browser - interpreting modem signals directly: 15.21%
Re:In utter disarray? (Score:5, Funny)
There's no difference. None of them come while you are awake.
Zing!
Re:Ugh!!! (Score:3, Funny)
I appreciate your sentiment, but you come off sounding like a raving loon.
You must be new here.
Re:typo in summary (Score:5, Funny)
I always thought that was the name of the guy who built Data. Wasn't it? Dr. Noone Young Sung?
Doctor Noonien Soong
Doctor who?
Re:typo in summary (Score:1, Funny)
Something tells me you're into something good.
You're revealing both your age and your bad taste in music in one sentence.
I, on the other hand, post anonymously to avoid the same fate...
Re:Proliferation of mobile browsers... (Score:5, Funny)
You host what??
Re:It's because IE 6 support was droped on some si (Score:5, Funny)
If you ignore the five screens of Javascript at the top of each page, Slashdot is actually more usable in Mosaic than it is in other browsers.
Re:typo in summary (Score:5, Funny)
You're putting monkeys out of work!
ivan
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I'm MSIE the 8th I am. MSIE the 8th I am, I am. I got bested by the browser next door. We've been tryin' 7 times before. And everyone was an MSIE. We wouldn't pass an AcidTest, no ma'am. I'm the User Agent MSIE, MSIE the 8th I am, I am. MSIE the 8th I am.
Re:Slashdot browser shares?? (Score:3, Funny)
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Re:hmm.... it's summer? (Score:3, Funny)
Those crafty socialist bastards! Enjoying a high standard of living and getting loads of free time? Must be a plot, I tells ya...
Re:typo in summary (Score:3, Funny)
No Doctor Who accidently left the positronic plans behind for Sung to steal.
Re:It was to be expected (Score:3, Funny)
Oh, I don't know. I think it just forces them to be stupid in new and different ways.
Here, here !!!! (Score:3, Funny)
I think he'll be OK. There are a lot of stupid people out there...
There is no shortage of them here either ;-)
Re:Slashdot browser shares?? (Score:3, Funny)
These numbers are faked. If your stats were accurate exactly 11.7% would be showing Emacs/w3m. Of course, you cold just be a jealous vi user who has no web browser or Rogue client built in to your text editor.
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Re:hmm.... it's summer? (Score:5, Funny)
It's OK, we make up for it by being hideously inefficient most of the rest of the time.
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You forgot my favourite you insensitive clod!