INTERNET EXPLORER CONTINUES SLIDE IN BROWSER WARS 2

Internet Explorer (IE) continues it's slide against an onslaught of browsers.  The perennial favorite has dropped to under 50% of the market, currently at 49.87%.  Compared this to Firefox making up 31.5% and Chrome coming up fast with 11.54%.  A number of other browsers, like Safari and Opera, make up the rest.  Interestingly, Chrome's market share has tripled in the last year.

Two years ago IE had over two-thirds of the market, but with a slew of new browsers that are faster and more configurable, the venerable browser just couldn't continue to compete.  Microsoft must have finally acknowledged the inevitable as it released an upgrade with IE 8 and a ground up redo with IE 9, currently in beta.

TehGayGeek's stats show that IE is the third most popular browser to visit the site at 22.62%.  The number one browser is Firefox at 34.73% followed by Chrome at 29.08%. [Engadget]