This weekend I previewed Microsoft's next planned operating system, Windows 8. Windows 8 includes their next entry into the browser market... IE10.

Microsoft claimed they were committed to improving standards compliance and HTML5 support. However, they are still lagging behind. As far as the IE10 beta version goes at least.

Going by html5test.com, IE10 scores nearly double when compared to IE9, however, it doesn't even touch Chrome, lagging over 40 points behind.

Microsoft's browser market share is falling all the time, with Safari and Opera now the only browsers holding less. From January to August of 2011 they lost 4.2% (out of total, 100% market share) market share, losing 32.4%, more than half, since January 2008. Less than one quarter of internet users now use any version of IE.

Why does it seem Microsoft isn't even trying? When will they step up their game?

Where are you getting that information? Yeah, IE's numbers are falling fast, but they're still well above one quarter market share, and they are still number one. But that probably won't be the case by this time next year.

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Browser usage statistics are renowned for being wildly inaccurate, and vary from source to source. But in all fairness, any version of IE isn't worth using. everyone i know either uses Firefox or Chrome.

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There is a village, which is hidden in the shadow of a mountain.
Everybody is suffering from a lack of light.
One day, the eldest of this village leaves for the mountain with a teaspoon in his hands.
The others ask him what he intends to do.
He replies that he is going to move the mountain.
"But you will never succeed!" they cry out.
"No, i will never succeed, but somebody has to start."

~~~The Wising Up Song - Misty's Big Adventure

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Kikori wrote:

Runevillage the forum is pretty well much done. Runevillage the group will eventually die, but as long as we're still friends with each other in the end, it's still a pretty big thought in our heads. Runevillage the family is forever, no matter where we settle down. If absolutely nothing else ever comes of Runevillage in the future, that alone is a pretty damn awesome thought.

I would have thought Chrome would be much higher and IE to be a lot lower.

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There are 10 types of people in the world, the ones that understand binary, and the ones that don't.

Thanks Lou for the help with the avatar.

Chrome is growing faster than any other browser, and IE is dying faster than any of the others, so that's probably why you thought that.

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I actually saw Google Chrome advertisement on the street/bus-stops here in the Netherlands a few months it came out... might be just me, but that was the first software update I've seen 'on the street'. I got the impression that they were trying hard to beat other browsers, but I really don't see IE going below Chrome anytime soon... it's more of an OS race to me - many people just don't care what browsers they use.