For over a decade, Internet Explorer (IE), thanks to Microsoft's illegal crushing of Netscape, ruled the web
browser field. Competitors, such as Mozilla Firefox, made runs at IE, but they barely
dented IE's lead. Then came Google Chrome in 2008, and in short order,
IE was in trouble.
Today, according to the
federal government's Digital Analytics Program (DAP), Chrome dominates US web browser use. While
Chrome doesn't have the 90-plus percent market margins that IE once did with
44.5 percent, nothing else comes close. IE lags far behind, with only 15.5
percent...