10 Reasons Why Microsoft's Internet Explorer Dominance is Ending

It has been widely reported recently that Microsoft’s share of the global browser market has fallen below 60% for the first time. If this trends continues then Firefox is forecasted to overtake IE by Christmas 2012. Don Resinger at eWeek has given his reasons why IE is losing market share (and also mind share) as follows

1. The European Union
2. Microsoft's complacency
3. Internet Explorer's security
4. Rebounding from IE 6
5. The features aren't there
6. The Google conundrum
7. The united fight against Microsoft
8. The educated user
9. No-names are actually doing well
10. Microsoft is still lost on the Web

Projection: Firefox overtakes IE by Christmas 2012

It has been widely reported that the global market share for Microsoft’s Internet Explorer has fallen below 60%. While pundits, commentators and technologists discuss the future of IE, Zack Whittaker at ZDNet has done “a bit of maths” and produced the following extrapolation, showing FireFox passing IE market share around December 2012.

Assuming Zack has done his Excel sums correctly, the prediction is still pure data extrapolation. The last year has been extremely unfavourable for IE with its security flaws and the playing out of the European anti-trust case against Microsoft. Redmond may still be able to turn the prediction around.