Internet Explorer loses share; HP promotes environmental progress

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Internet Explorer loses share; HP promotes environmental progress

Barbara Darrow, Nicole Harding, Editors
IT channel news in brief for April 6, 2009

IE lead dwindles

Data from Net Applications show that Internet Explorer has continually lost browser market share from May, 2008 through March, 2009, and currently holds 66.8% of the market, down from 67.4% in February. Mozilla Firefox has had a steady increase for the same period and is now represents about 22% of the market.

IE 7 still dominates the market; IE 6 has 18.4% and the new IE 8 has 1.83%. Firefox 2 and Safari 3.1 and 3.2 have small leads on IE 8.

HP pats self on back for environmental progress

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