Windows 10: Internet Explorer 11 now most used web browser in World

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Almost 60% share counting all versions from IE8, that's quite impressive!

:)

 

Microsoft edge is not compatible with my company website

Versions of Internet Explorer earlier than IE 11 are no longer able to be installed. Try Google Chrome.

If your company website doesn't work on Google Chrome or IE 11 - the two most popular web browsers - then the website is the problem, not the browser.

 

Browser with 10

No, it includes Internet Explorer 11.

Will the new Microsoft Edge web browser replace Internet Explorer in Windows 10?

No, Windows 10 will continue to include an updated version of Internet Explorer 11 for compatibility with legacy web sites. Microsoft Edge is based on a new engine, so some older web sites will switch to the older Internet Explorer 11 engine for compatibility
purposes.

 

Waiting for the only reason is because. . .it comes install in all new windows computers, it comes with the upgrade form window . . .etc. . .oh wait. . .

 

That argument does not fully apply. Windows Media Player comes with Windows but it is not the most used media player, users install their third party preferred players replacing WMP. The same with IE; OK, it comes with Windows but it is not as often replaced as for instance the media players.

Especially that argument is not true here in Europe where the first round of Windows Updates installs the Browser Choice which removes the IE from taskbar and Start Menu and then after next reboot is automatically run asking which browser the user wants to install and use, IE or any of the about dozen or so alternatives.

 

LOL it is all in the spin-reporters

let's look at this which shows an entirely different story
W3Counter: Global Web Stats

Or, let us look at this
Browser Statistics

Or, this one
StatCounter Global Stats - Browser, OS, Search Engine including Mobile Usage Share

I feel like I am viewing campaign ads from opposing parties

 

NetMarketShare won't tell me their European figures unless I turn on geolocation, which I'm not doing.
Why should my location make any difference to the European figures?

What are the browser figures for Europe?

Chrome is ridiculously popular with W3C visitors. *Confused

 

Well, as the saying goes.. there's Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics. But some are more self selecting than others. Some of these reports make an effort to create a non-biased pool of sites to gain data from, other just take whoever wants to join their list.. and those sites tend to be very tech heavy, which favors more non-IE results.

Let's take, for instance:

This one shows Safari with 15.2%. Wow. Safari is only available for MacOS if it's only counting desktop browsers (which it seems to be), and MacOS only accounts for about 7% of the market share. How, exactly does MacOS then have more than 2x the browser share than they have computers?

If the numbers include mobile, then that would include iOS and MacOS, but then those numbers would also include Android. And MacOS + iOS is far less than than 15% of the installed base of Android alone, much less Android + everything else that might be running Chrome (or some version of it). So those numbers, just based on the Safari stats are highly suspect.

First.. w3schools? Seriously? Apart from the fact that they're the worst joke on the internet... ( see W3Fools ? Better web education for all ), w3schools is again very tech heavy... mostly visited by web developers which are going to be very chrome and firefox heavy. The bias is well known. In fact, look at the huge difference between safari usage in the two sites.. 15.2 vs 3.6, and chrome is almost 60% vs 40%.

Now, Statcounter is a completely apples to oranges comparison. Statcounters stats are based on page views, not on market share. In other words, they base their stats on which browsers view the most pages and do not remove duplicate ip's or try to find unique visitors.

In theory, users of chrome should view just as many pages as users of IE, but in practice we really don't know if that's the case.. since chrome users tend to be more technical, they may spend much more time surfing... or they may just visit a lot more pages than other people on a daily basis.. it's hard to tell. Their justification is that they count which browsers are the most USED, not the ones that have the most market share, and they also count users who use more than one browser.

Regardless, I've seen the browser statistics for a lot of sites, some of them quite large (Millions of dollars in revenue per day), and I've never once seen one in which chrome or any other browser came even close to surpassing IE in usage on any site I've monitored. So, simply put.. My own personal experience agrees with the net applications data, and not with the others. NetMarketShare data is also similar... Market share for mobile, browsers, operating systems and search engines | NetMarketShare

 

You can install Safari on Windows.
Safari 5.1.7 for Windows

I suspect that it might be installed by:

• Web developers using Windows (testing)
• Users that have swapped from Mac to Windows (familiarity)

Anecdotally this is true at my Web Development course:

• Most people seem to use Chrome.
• The second largest group is Firefox users
• Only a handful of people use IE (TAFE only allows IE9 though)

 

I might have presented my case in a confusing way, once again I apologize, English is my third language and I sometimes explain myself in it in such a way that it creates misunderstandings.

Your location makes of course no difference. In my post I was explaining that regarding Europe, the fact that IE comes shipped with Windows does not explain its popularity in Europe because in accordance to EU regulations, Microsoft was forced to add the Browser Choice in each Windows sold in European Union. It very effectively changes the situation, making in fact all browsers "default" in Windows by forcing the user to decide which browser to install and set default.

For Yankees of Aussies and who not, the IE is the default browser in Windows, many users are satisfied with it and never install another browser. For us Europeans the situation is not the same. After first updates the IE is removed from Taskbar and Start Menu and the Browser Choice will be presented. We are forced to select a browser, be it the IE or something else, which will then be installed to our system by this Browser Choice app.

Conclusion: The reason someone from North Carolina or Ontario or Queensland is using IE can and often is the fact that as it was already installed and shipped with Windows, the user sees no need to replace it with another browser. Quite often it is not a conscious choice.

At the same time, the reason that an European is using IE is a conscious choice; Browser Choice was and is presented, forcing the user to choose a browser. All browsers are equal, presented equally in Browser Choice, IE is not favorited in any way. User must select one, make a a conscious choice.

From http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/w...-choice-update:

Click the image (it's an animated GIF, you have to click it to see animation) in my previous post to see all alternatives presented to us Europeans.

 

That argument does not fully apply. Windows Media Player comes with Windows but it is not the most used media player, users install their third party preferred players replacing WMP. The same with IE; OK, it comes with Windows but it is not as often replaced as for instance the media players.

Especially that argument is not true here in Europe where the first round of Windows Updates installs the Browser Choice which removes the IE from taskbar and Start Menu and then after next reboot is automatically run asking which browser the user wants to install and use, IE or any of the about dozen or so alternatives.


You should know me by now Kari that I am not series about much of anything. . .that is just for those who will want to make those augments. . .*Thumbs

 

Lee, I know *Smile.

I just thought that it could be useful piece of information for you non-Europeans, to know that using IE is to us a conscious choice because of this Browser Choice.

 

I might have presented my case in a confusing way, once again I apologize, English is my third language and I sometimes explain myself in it in such a way that it creates misunderstandings. My bad. *Redface

It wasn't a comment about your post.
I understood the point you were making.

I meant why should I tell NetMarketShare my location to view that info.

I was just interested to see if the data looked different. *Smile

 

I think a lot of the younger Americans are are techie enough of making a "half-concious" decisions, but it's mostly fads with them. They think Google is the only search engine on earth, so they install the tool/search bar, then next thing is they install Chrome. "Well, ya know it's on my phone".

My wanna-be-IT-tech son-in-law thinks FF and others are "a lot safer than IE". Have no idea where he gets that from. There is no such thing as "safe anything" if it crawls across the dirty/filthy Net. OMG! I went to search for a movie A Guy recomended because Netflix doesn't have it. I do a Bing search and get "Free Movie!" or "Sreaming Movie!". I opened a few sites deep in the pile I thought were safe. It was like falling into a snake pit! I never saw so many raunchy ads and "get this BS" on two pages in my life! Then all of them want my email address > No thanks!