Internet Explorer dips below 60% in the Browser market share

Yet another bad month for this Microsoft Browser. According to the Net Application, Internet Explorer's market share has gone below 60% for the first time. IE user base continues to decrease with the April 2010 stats showing 59.95% share of IE.

Since the beginning of this year, Microsoft browser has continuously fallen from 62.69% to 59.95% till the end of April. And the major share of this fall is gained by Google's Chrome browser which has grown from 4.63 to 6.73%. Firefox is more or less same as it was at the beginning of 2010 having faced some both ups and downs.

IE, no doubt, doesn't stand a chance before the latest version of the browsers released by the major vendors - Firefox by Mozilla, Chrome by Google, Safari by Apple and  Opera Browser. They all have integrated HTML5 support into their browser which is not provided by any of the current IE versions. Though in the technical preview of IE9, Microsoft showed that it is going to support HTML5 in addition to hardware acceleration for graphics and text rendering.

Although Microsoft has been more in news because of their decision to go for H.264 codec for HTML5 video, which actually didn't come as a surprise because Microsoft already holds patents in this technology, H.264 in better than Ogg Theora in many aspects and ofcourse Microsoft loves propreitary stuff. So, it was rather expected. After release, IE9 might prevent its further fall for sometime, but it doesn't seem that IE9 supporting HTML5 will be of much benefit to this open web technology.