Beijing time on January 4th news, according to foreign media reports, Microsoft announced on Tuesday through the official blog, IE6's share of the US browser market is less than 1%.
before the United States, the country's share of IE6, Australia, Poland, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Norway had less than 1%. Microsoft is desperate to urge users to upgrade their browsers to more advanced products such as IE9. As early as last March, Microsoft launched a website called "IE6 Countdown" to appeal to global Internet users to stop using IE6 browsers that have been in use for ten years. At the time, Microsoft said that the main purpose of the "IE6 Countdown" website was to monitor the use of IE6 worldwide and to reduce the global market share of IE6 to less than 1%.
case Microsoft is currently facing, does not guarantee that users will upgrade their IE browser, or switch to Google Chrome or Firefox browser. In fact, the market share of IE browser is in a continuous decline, and for the first time in history, it has fallen below the 50% mark. At the same time, the Chrome browser's share is expected to break the 20% mark for the first time.
on Microsoft WindowsXP operating system is also facing the same problem. At present, the market share of the Windows XP operating system in the global operating system still reaches 46.52%. Both Windows XP and IE6 face the same problem: they were popular with users when they were first released in 2001. After the new operating system and browsers came out, many users just didn't want to upgrade their browsers or operating systems.
NetApplications Internet traffic monitoring agency released the latest data show that as of December 2011, WindowsXP market share, although compared to last month fell 2.4%, but still holds a 46.5% share. NetApplications said that more and more users are beginning to abandon WindowsXP, a decade-old operating system, and use Windows7, so WindowsXP's market share fell by 2.4% in December, which is close to the biggest decline in October. 2.5%. At present, WindowsXP has a market share of 46.5%, which is the lowest point in the operating system market share. In the four months from September to December, WindowsXP's market share has fallen by nearly 6%, and in the previous four months, from May to August, WindowsXP's market share fell by 3.4%.
July last year, Microsoft recommends that users abandon WindowsXP, and remind users that Microsoft will be held in April 2014 to abandon all support for this operating system. Prior to this, the Microsoft IE team also gave up IE9 support for Windows XP. Two months ago, Microsoft celebrated the 10th anniversary of the launch of Windows XP in a low-key manner. At that time, Microsoft used the slogan "No advance and then retreat" to call users to switch to Windows 7. In the past 12 months, WindowsXP's market share has fallen by 12.4%, nearly half of which has been lost in the past four months. This may pre-empt WindowsXP to lose the operating system market share first throne.