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Microsoft has been quite boastful about the video codecs that were placed in Internet Explorer 9, and to read some of their recent communications, you would think that the company was really on a roll. However, the truth of the matter is that the browser with the moniker of Internet Explorer is on a downward spiral in the market. Shares have fallen below 60 percent as of this writing, and many predict the stock will go even lower.

NetMarketShare, which is a company that compiles usage share statistics for search engines, operating systems, browsers, and more, shares this data for free with the Internet population. It is hoped that this information will provide helpful insight into noteworthy trends for Internet usage. The study that tells of Microsoft’s browser woes was carried out by NetMarketShare.

Internet Explorer has never fallen below 60 percent before, at least not since data from measurement of market shares has been made available. Microsoft must be feeling the loss, most especially since one of their rivals, Google, is gaining market shares. Apple’s Safari browser has also started to inch up the market share ladder. For April, Internet Explorer occupied only 59.95 percent of the market, while Google Chrome has risen up to 6.73 percent, and Safari is at 4.72 percent. Internet Explorer’s biggest rival is of course the Firefox browser, which has a market share of 24.59 percent.

Most average end users could care less about which browser has the most market shares. This disinterest is more than likely the reason why Internet Explorer has been dominant in the market for so long. Many people have begun to realize that IE certainly is not a very advanced browser, and these users of IE say that the browser falls short of being perfect based on their experience with it.

However, you must remember that Internet Explorer is usually the browser included on all new Windows-capable computers. People get used to using IE, and it eventually becomes a habit for them. This is one of the reasons why Microsoft has a browser monopoly in the United States. Europe has a browser ballot that is enforced legally in order to try and combat Microsoft’s rising monopoly in that country. Of course, it is entirely possible that a person would just choose to click on an icon for the browser he or she is familiar with instead of having to make the difficult decision of which browser to use.

These statistics could be thought of as a sort of a fixed opinion for at least the PC industry at this time. More laptops and desktops with the Apple logo are being sold each day. Since Microsoft has let their virtual hand slip when it comes to the portable computer industry, and since netbooks are hot right now, they are taking up the spot vacated by portable computers. We also have the tablet computer industry to watch. Mobile Safari from Apple is all set to take over the browsing experience of millions of computer users later this year, so it is predicted that the dominance of Internet Explorer will continue to drop.