Is IE loosing the battle?

IE seems to be loosing the browser battle. There have been reports that show that IE’s rival browsers are gaining grounds.

A recent study done by Net Applications which involved over 40,000 websites and a lot of technologies in August and September 2009 showed the usage of different browsers in the internet. According to this study, the usage of IE has reduced from 67% to 65.7%. The usage firefox which was introduced five years ago has gained traction. Firefox users have increased from 23% to 23.8%. Apple’s Safari users have increased from 4.1% to 4.2%. Google Chrome users have increased from 2.8% to 3.2%. Opera users have increased from 2% to 2.2%. Do not think that this figure is too small. Considering the billions of total internet users this figure is too high.

Recently firefox released its 3.5 version which introduced many new features including faster java execution and built in vide. According to Microsoft even though the IE users are decreasing the IE8 users are increasing