What does this mean for development and design of future sites for Parent Technology. Not much, IE and Firefox still account for most of the browser use at ~85%. I personally use Firefox but like IE 7. I upgrade my PC to windows 7 and now have IE 8 and will not use it.
Information from zdnet.com
Last week’s release of Google’s Chrome for Mac OS X and Linux gave the upstart Web browser a major boost in marketshare according to Net Applications, which tracks the browser habits of 160 million unique visitors each month to the 40,000 sites it monitors for customers.
Chrome’s marketshare jumped to 4.4% for the week of December 6-12, an increase of 0.4 percent over November. The boost was enough to best Safari’s 4.37%, even if only by 0.03%.
During November, IE had a 63.6% share, while Firefox’s was 24.7%.
Since the debut of the Chrome beta for the Mac the scrappy browser accounted for 1.3% of all browsers used on Mac OS X, up from just 0.32% during November. Vince Vizzaccaro, Executive Vice President of Net Applications, said that Chrome appears to have stolen marketshare equally from both Safari and Firefox.
I just recently upgrade all of our systems to Windows 7 from Windows Vista and Windows XP. I am very imprest with Windows 7 so far and could not be happier. If you are on Windows Vista I would recommend upgrading and saving money on support costs as the store and webcast will talk about below.