A month after Internet Explorer 8’s release it had a market share of 4.63 percent of worldwide web browser share according to Net Applications. This was an increase of 3.18 percent of market share from the 1.45 percent Internet Explorer 8 had on release date of March 19. Those number include users using pre-release versions of Internet Explorer 8, the day before the finalized version was released it already had market share of 1.34 percent. Internet Explorer 8 now has a larger market share than either Google’s Chrome or Opera and over half Apple’s Safari had in the month of March. Chrome had a market share of 1.23 percent, Opera had .70 percent, and Safari had 8.23 percent. In March Internet Explorer had a total market share of 66.82 percent, with Internet Explorer 6 having a market share of18.36 percent and Internet Explorer 7 having 46.54 percent.