The end of an era: Internet Explorer drops below 50% of Web usage

Ars Technica reports with a lot of stats and graphs about the decline of the Internet Explorer marketshare. In October IE usage dropped below the 50% mark for the first time in a decade. Chrome is the fastest growing browser on the market and already has a larger marketshare then Firefox. The mobile market is another kind of beast and IE never had a large share in there: it's a Safari (Webkit?) world at large. Maybe that will change when Android tablets finally take off with Honeycomb. Or, you never now, maybe Nokia will ship millions of Windows phones and tablets to put a dent in Apple's IOS business. Not very likely but sometimes strange things happen.