IE and Windows serve up huge helping of patches for security flaws

Brian Krebs recently pointed out gigantic security update for Windows and IE was released earlier this month (October 2010).  There were 49 holes patched; 10 of them in IE.

Windows IE popularity has dipped and is estimated to be around 1/2 of web usage, some estimate it at just under 50%.  Firefox has about 1/3 of all web usage.  The remaining 1/5 or so is made up of Apple Safari, Google Chrome (which is based on the guts of Apple Safari), and Opera.

Web browser stats are very difficult to measure for a variety of reasons.  One thing seems clear and that is that IE has lost of lot of market share.   It is nowhere close to the 90% figure it commanded for a number of years from the late 1990s to the mid-2000s.  So take these figures with a grain of salt.