IE 6 Surges as Netscape Stumbles
WinInfo | at | by Mike
Only seven months after its release, Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 has captured 30 percent of the Web browser market. And while IE's gains are impressive, they're coming largely at the expense of one-time rival Netscape, which saw its share drop to under 7 percent, down from 12 percent the year before. IE 6 is currently the second most-often used Web browser on the Internet, while IE 5 is number one.
"The fast adoption rate for IE 6 has been a definite threat to Netscape's usage share," says Geoff Johnston, the vice president of product marketing for market researcher StatMarket. "Although it looked originally as though Netscape had an entrenched core user base, IE6 has managed to take significant market share. It's do or die time now for Netscape."