Where is Internet Explorer 9? Have you seen it?
You'll have to look real hard to find IE9 in NetApplications April browser user share data. IE9 doesn't even make NetApp's browser-version breakdown chart for all operating systems, although its usage share was 2.41 percent. By comparison, Firefox 4.0, which launched 7 days later, snatched 5.43 percent usage share. Both browsers debuted in March.
The kicker: Windows 7. Microsoft only released IE9 for that operating system and Windows Vista. By comparison, Firefox 4 runs on XP, which is still the majority of the Windows install base. Whoops, Firefox 4 has higher usage share there, too -- 8.40 percent to IE9's 7.46 percent. But don't cry for Microsoft. IE8 has 47.54 percent usage share.
Still, NetApps data isn't good for IE9. Chrome 10 also launched in March, and its Windows 7 usage share is 14.75 percent, making it second to IE8. From the all-OS viewpoint, Chrome 10 has 9.91 percent usage share, or about four times IE9's.
