IE 6 MARKET SHARE HIT 34% IN MAINLAND CHINA

AsiaInfo Services
06-14-2011
IE 6 Market Share Hit 34% in Mainland China

BEIJING, Jun 14, 2011 (SinoCast Daily Business Beat via COMTEX) -- Data from IE 6 Countdown show that 10.9% of the world's Internet users are still using IE 6 Internet browser by May 2011 and the proportion slips 7.2% from a year earlier. The figure hit 33.9% in Mainland China and ranks number one worldwide.

The users of IE 6 in the Mainland account for 5.8% of the world's total Internet users and more than half of the IE 6 users globally. The number also takes the first place around the world.

Other countries and territories whose usage rates of IE 6 top 10% include South Korea, Vietnam and India. The usage rates are the lowest in Finland and Norway.

IE 6 was developed and launched ten years ago and once took more than half of the global Internet browser market. However, its market share has been sliding through the efforts of Microsoft.

IE 6 Countdown is a Web site launched by Microsoft to call on Internet users to suspend using IE 6, aiming to keep the Internet browser's global market share below 1%.

Source: www.sina.com.cn (June 14, 2011)

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