All articles Microsoft Internet Explorer Gains Browser Market Share To 57.6 Percent ————————— According to Netmarketshare’s numbers, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser gained market share in August hitting a two-year high of 57.6 percent. Google Chrome lost the most among the major browsers which saw its usage drop from 17.76 percent to 16 percent. I was surprised by the numbers when I saw it first, then came to know that Netmarketshare changed the way they measure their numbers this month. Ed Bott from ZDNet summarized it as follows, Net Applications recently changed its formula for measuring usage. In an undated note labeled “Important methodology change,” the company explains: This month we start deducting hidden pages from our usage share statistics. Hidden pages are pages that are rendered but never viewed by the user, therefore, they should not be included in usage share data. An example of a hidden page is a page that loads in a background tab upon the launch of the browser and is never made visible. That note appears to have been added to the site in July, although it’s not… Read more: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/msftnws/~3/LT1vDLt2NW0/ ————————— 2013-09-02 07:38:39 Dark RSS Reader www.darkrss.ch
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