BAD HARDWARE WEEK

And so, for the first time, Microsoft's IE worldwide market share has unceremoniously fallen below 50% - to 49.87% in September.

Meanwhile, Mozilla's Firefox weighed in at an impressive 31.5%, while Google Chrome tripled from 3.69% in September 2009 to 11.54% just a year later. European IE market share has fallen to 40.26% in September this year. Ooooops.

BAD HARDWARE recently reported that Microsoft Balmer's latest bonus somewhere missed too.