Guardian.co.uk, the Guardian News & Media website network that includes MediaGuardian, reported an 8.07% fall in daily unique browsers between February and March to 3,721,091.
Microsoft complied, but claims that a technical error meant that users were not asked if they would like to install rival internet browsers between February 2011 and July 2012.
Millions of European users of the Windows 7 SP1 version of the software may not have been offered a choice of browsers between February 2011 and July 2012, Mr. Almunia said.
The MGD website network, which also includes 3am.co.uk and MirrorFootball.co.uk, reported a 29.89% rise in monthly unique browsers between March and April to 25,150,876, according to the latest Audit Bureau of Circulations figures published on Thursday.
News International's the Sun reported a 4.85% loss in daily unique browsers between February and March to 1,488,696, but a small 0.36% rise in monthly web visitors to 24,695,634.
As one might postulate from the Web browser wars between Netscape and Microsoft, however, if there is money to be made in an area of computing, Microsoft is bound to turn up somewhere.
In addition to the tying charge, Microsoft, antitrust experts say, stands a good chance of getting a reversal on the court's finding that Microsoft made an illegal offer to Netscape Communications to divide the browser market between them.
Back in the 1990s during the original browser wars between Netscape and Internet Explorer, one of Microsoft's chief weapons was the ability to bundle IE into Windows as the default browser.
In addition to all of this, the team has now enabled new security features that ensure that every document you store on Drive is encrypted both at rest and in transit to your browser and between Google's servers. . .
If you don't spend your life in Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook, chances are you spend most of your days in a web browser, navigating between countless tabs.
