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• Analysis: Microsoft - Too old and too big to survive?

  By Mark Gibbs | 22 May, 2012 03:44

  What browser do you prefer? According to w3schools.com, which tracks browser usage of people interested in Web technologies and hence more likely to try alternative tools, as of April this year, 38.3 per cent of us preferred Google's Chrome, 35.8 per cent went with Mozilla's Firefox, and 18.3 per cent were still using Microsoft's Internet Explorer (Apple's Safari and Opera were trailing way behind). Over the last year IE and Firefox have seen their shares decrease and only Chrome has gained share.

• Study: iOS surpasses Android in enterprise usage

  By Colin Neagle | 11 May, 2012 06:31

  Consumerisation trends in the enterprise shifted dramatically in the first quarter of 2012, with mobile devices running Apple's iOS operating system showing more activity in the workplace than those running Google's Android, as well as end users migrating from Facebook and toward Twitter.

• Analysis: Internet Explorer is up, every other browser is down

  By Tony Bradley | 03 April, 2012 00:08

  Internet Explorer is gaining back some lost ground in the browser market share battle. It has reclaimed nearly two percentage points over the past three months--jumping almost a full percentage point just this month. What’s more interesting, is that Microsoft’s browser took a little share from every other browser out there to make up that percentage point gain.

• Chrome's trumping of Internet Explorer could herald things to come

  By Jon Gold | 22 March, 2012 04:40

  The news that Google's Chrome browser had briefly surpassed Internet Explorer, based on data compiled by StatCounter, as the most-used on the web last weekend may have taken some by surprise, but this writing has been on the wall for some time.

• Expert: Microsoft has itself to blame in browser-privacy flap

  By Tim Greene | 23 February, 2012 05:29

  Microsoft is pointing fingers at Google and Facebook for circumventing the privacy mechanism baked into Internet Explorer, but the real problem lies in its own failure to implement the P3P privacy standard well, an expert says.

• Valentine's Day Patch Tuesday: Microsoft to issue 9 patches, 4 critical

  By Colin Neagle | 10 February, 2012 09:29

  Microsoft Thursday said that the second Patch Tuesday of 2012 will see nine security bulletins, four of which were deemed critical.

• Goodbye 2011 ... What a year!

  By Mark Gibbs | 19 December, 2011 17:27

  Well, as we are just a hop, skip and an eggnog away from putting on silly hats, drinking champagne, and kissing random people as we bid goodbye to the year, it behooves me to look into the digital rearview mirror and ponder what we can see rushing away from us.

• Chrome 15 Beats Out IE8 As World's Most Popular Browser

  By Ian Paul | 16 December, 2011 01:41

  Google Chrome 15 is the most popular web browser in the world overtaking Internet Explorer 8, according to web analytics firm StatCounter. Chrome 15 just barely beat out its Microsoft rival for the first time between November 21 and 27 with 23.63 percent of the global browser market share compared to IE8's 23.5 percent. Mozilla's Firefox 8 trailed behind at a distant third with 12.12 percent of worldwide usage during the same time period.

• Microsoft to start automatic updates of IE without asking the user

  By Ellen Messmer | 16 December, 2011 00:30

  Microsoft next year will change its automated update process for the Internet Explorer (IE) Web browser to push out the latest version of the browser for XP, Vista and Windows 7 without the notification-style install prompt presented to the end user today.

• yARN: Browser woes - what to use on a Mac?

  By Stephen Withers | 07 October, 2011 16:12

  Choosing a browser to use on a Mac used to be simple, but it’s not any more.

• Windows 8 update: The end of Adobe Flash?

  By Ian Paul | 16 September, 2011 00:04

  Microsoft appears to be taking a page out of Apple's play book saying it will dump plug-ins such as Adobe Flash from Internet Explorer 10 in Windows 8. Well, sort of.

• IN PICTURES: The big, bad browser quiz

  By Tim Greene | 02 September, 2011 11:42

  Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Safari -- you know the names of these Web browsers, but do you really know them?

• Chrome nibbles at IE, Microsoft finds silver lining

  By Tony Bradley | 02 August, 2011 01:49

  It is the first day of the month, and that means new browser market share numbers from Net Applications. Internet Explorer and Firefox continue to slide as Chrome and Safari gain ground -- but Microsoft focuses on its own silver lining.

• Google to drop support of older browsers

  By Patrick Budmar | 06 June, 2011 11:44

  Starting from August 1, Google will only support the current and prior major releases of the Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer and Safari Web browsers.

• Chrome marches on while IE continues downward spiral

  By Tony Bradley | 02 June, 2011 03:09

  Net Applications has released the browser market share data for the month of May. It looks like more good news for Chrome, and more bad news for Internet Explorer.