"The only thing Microsoft should be worried about right now is how bad their publicity engine is. I mean, they're just letting Google walk all over them. They need to bring out their big guns and call BS on Chrome as an OS. Or, at least, force any rapid, fanatical anti-MS person to exclusively use browser-based apps for a week. "
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Safari, Chrome, Firefox gain on IE

By John Cook on January 2, 2009 at 3:40 PM PST

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Internet Explorer continues to lose market share to other Web browsers, including Firefox and Safari. The Microsoft Web browser now has 68.15 percent share, down from 79.9 percent in January 2007 and well off the days when it controlled more than 90 percent of the market, according to a report from Market Share. Firefox and Safari continued to climb at 21.3 percent and 7.9 percent, respectively.

But even more interesting is that a new player in the browser wars -- Google -- is just starting to make waves. For the month of December, Google's Chrome topped one percent. That's significant given that Chrome only was introduced in early September.

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