Internet Explorer continues its slide

From Good Morning, Silicon Valley:

“Unblocked security problems in the ubiquitous Web browser have led IT professionals and even the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team to recommend that users toss IE in favor of a more secure browser, and it appears more and more of us are taking their advice. Web analytics vendor WebSideStory reports that IE lost another 1.8 percent of the browser market over the past three months, falling to 93.7 percent. This is the second time IE’s market share has declined in recent months. It fell a percentage point between June and July in the wake of a parade of high-profile security issues – the first such decline ever recorded (see “Maybe you should rename it AIEEEEEEE!!!!!!”). Admittedly, these drops are slight, but they appear to be sustained, and they’re not without their beneficiaries, among them the Mozilla Foundation, which just recorded a record number of downloads for the preview version of Firefox 1.0.”