IE market share: What’s going on?

You have to admit, it is becoming more and more difficult to discern who is being completely forth write about the real marketshare of IE these days.

Recent high-profile security problems with Internet Explorer have done little to dent its market share - or maybe not, according to conflicting reports on web browser use.
Web analytics firm OneStat.com reckons that IE’s global usage share is 85.85 per cent, an increase of 2.8 per cent since July 2006. Mozilla Firefox’s open source browser claims second place with a share of 11.49 per cent, a decrease of 1.44 per cent since July 2006. Apple’s Safari claimed 1.61 per cent (down 0.23 per cent), and Opera held 0.69 per cent of the market, according to OneStat latest (October) figures. OneStat.com stats are drawn from visitors to websites that use its web analytics technology…. Source: The Register