Microsoft's IE loses more share, slides to new low

From InfoWorld: Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) again lost market share last month, although at a slower rate than the previous two-month stretch, but still ended at a new low of 67.6 percent as rivals continued to steal users, a Web metrics firm reported Sunday.

Apple's Safari, meanwhile, outpaced the growth of Mozilla 's Firefox for the third month in a row, according to Net Applications.

Overall, Microsoft's browser lost 0.6 percentage points of its market share last month, ending January with 67.6 percent, the lowest number since Net Applications began tracking browser data in 2005. In the last 12 months, IE has slipped about 8 percentage points in market share, nearly as much as the 9.8 percent drop during the preceding 24 months.

However, January's drop was nowhere near the 1.6 percentage points IE lost in December 2008 or the 1.5 percentage points it gave up in November.

The one bright spot for Microsoft was the slight ground gained by Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) after the browser reached the Release Candidate 1 (RC1) milestone.

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