Microsoft's new browser, Internet Explorer 9 (IE9), accounted for 3.6 percent of Web browsing in March, according to browser market share numbers released early on Friday by Internet analytics firm Net Applications.
This significantly trailed more established browsers like Microsoft's own IE8, with 51.2 percent, Firefox 3.6, with 19.5 percent, and Google Chrome, with 15.2 percent. But on Windows 7, IE9 was still ahead of the other major new browser release last month—Firefox 4, which saw 2.8 percent usage share. But IE9 only runs on Windows 7 and Vista, while competitors Firefox and Chrome still support the more popular but aging version, XP, which still claims 54 percent global usage, according to Net Applications.
Worldwide browser market share on all operating systems showed IE in all versions continuing its decline, from 56.77 percent in February to 55.92 percent in March. Over the same period, Firefox rose slightly from 21.74 percent to 21.80 percent, and Chrome made the most significant move of the three, increasing from 10.93 percent to 11.57 percent.
In the U.S. alone, however, the picture is different: across all versions, Internet Explorer gained 0.19 percent for a 72.44 percent share, while Chrome and Firefox declined by 0.10 percent and 0.08 percent, respectively.
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