Microsoft"s iron grip on the Web browser market has slipped ever so slightly since the release of new products from rivals Mozilla and Netscape Communications, Web researcher OneStat.com reported Monday.
- Microsoft still dominates the browser market. As of the 21st June 2002, all versions of the Microsoft browser accounted for 95.3 percent of the global usage share market. The total global usage share of Microsoft has dropped with 1.3 percent from 96.6 percent to 95.3 percent. However, Microsoft"s Explorer 6.0 continues to rise with a global usage share of 1.7 percent since April 2002 and has a global usage share of 46.4 percent.
- The total global usage share of Netscape has increased with 0.6 percent from 2.8 percent to 3.4 percent.
- Mozilla 1.0 has shown a fast adoptation rate with a global usage share of 0.4 percent in the first two weeks of its public launch.
- Netscape 7.0 has gotten off to a quick start in its first month of release. The global usage share of Netscape 7.0 is 0.3 percent.
- The total global usage share of Opera has increased with 0.2 percent from 0.5 to 0.7 percent.
| 1. | Microsoft IE 6.0 | 46.4% |
| 2. | Microsoft IE 5.5 | 23.9% |
| 3. | Microsoft IE 5.0 | 23.6% |
| 4. | Netscape Navigator 4.0 | 1.4% |
| 5. | Microsoft IE 4.0 | 1.2% |
| 6. | Opera 6.0 | 0.6% |
| 7. | Netscape Navigator 3.0 | 0.5% |