So, Microsoft is definitely continuing to erode influence overall--thanks in some part to its commitment to IE9 and limiting the audience to a mere fraction of the PCs in the world. Depending on your perspective, there is some good news in there somewhere for Internet Explorer, though.

Fortunately for Microsoft, these tenths of a percentage point shifts one way or the other have a very slow impact. Based on the trend lines, Chrome will eventually be number one, and Internet Explorer could be third or fourth (Firefox will just keep spinning its wheels ). But, that could be a decade from now because the market share moves like watching a glacial ice flow.