According to ComputerWorld IE
gained a small market share in April. It is the first gain for IE since October and
comes after Apple attempted to push Safari out via automatic updates. I didn't do
that well in statistics but the numbers seemed relatively small and might just reflect
that there is some settling in the marketplace as people pick their favorite browser
and use it. The article points out that IE6 gained in popularity. That tells me it
wasn't a whole slew of new Windows Vista machines. I am hoping it wasn't a lot of
people who gave up on Vista and went back to XP but that is certainly also a possibility.
If that were the case I would expect the numbers to change as those people download
IE7, Safari, or FireFox to their XP machines.
Of course as we all know and are reminded of almost every time we watch the news,
statistics can be made to tell almost any story that we want.
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