OS web wars: it's still a two-horse race

Stephen Withers
Tuesday, 03 March 2009 05:18

Business IT - Networking

But mobile browsing is still very much a minority interest, accounting for just 0.72 percent of all browsing in February.

To put it another way, more people use Linux when browsing than all the mobile platforms put together.

There's more bad news for Microsoft when we look at browser usage across all platforms.

Internet Explorer continues to lose share, and has reached an all-time low of 67.51 percent. But that's still a hefty proportion of page views.

IE's 11 percentage point loss over two years has largely been split between Firefox (up six and a half percentage points) and Safari (up three and a half percentage points).

Chrome, the new kid on the browser block, now has a 1.15 percent share. Not bad for a program that's still at an early stage of development.

No other browser manages to attract a one percent share.

So to cater for practically all web users, you still need to code your sites for IE, Firefox and Safari.