And we have access to a couple for browser market studies from Market Share by net Applications and from OneStat. And this is not a question of nuances, the two rapports are downright contradictory. In this context, OneStat indicates that Microsoft IE has grown to a total of 85.85% in September. According to OneStat metrics, Internet Explorer has almost regained the market share it has constantly lost since October 2005 when it accounted for 86.52% of the market.

OneStat fails to argument the 2.8% jump IE has experienced since July of this year. But is this growth based on actual facts or has OneStat just proved too generous with the error margins?

Market Share by net Applications paints a whole different picture. According to their statistics, Microsoft IE is on the same descendant slope as the past months have illustrated. Internet Explorer is down almost 1% compared with August 2006, at a low of 82.10%. Now 85.85% and 82.10% just don't add up. Microsoft is at the center stage of the browser market, and even more so with the anticipation over the release of Internet Explorer 7 but this is not an explanation for a 2.8% growth in just two months, a percentage that the Redmond Company has saw slip in over half a year.

And were does Mozilla fit into all this? Well the two reports are again dichotomous. "Mozilla Firefox's browsers have a total global usage share of 11.49 percent. The total usage share of Mozilla Firefox decreased 1.44 percent since July 2006," alleges OneStat. This while Market Share confirms Firefox's ascendant trajectory indicating a 12.46% market share in September over 11.84% in August and 11.34% in July. And Mozilla is also on track to releasing Firefox 2.0 and is also getting a lot of publicity.