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IE Losing 10% Market Share Every Two Years
mjasay writes "Mozilla's Asa Dotzler points to some interesting long-term trends in browser market share, noting that 'browser releases aren't having any major impact on the macro trends,' which suggests that a better IE will likely have little impact on its sliding market share. The most intriguing conclusion from the data, however, is that Firefox could surpass IE market share as early as January 2013 if Firefox continues to gain 5 percent every year, even as IE drops 5 percent each year. In the past, Microsoft might have fought back by tying IE to other products to block competition, but with the EU keeping a close antitrust eye on Microsoft and the US Obama administration keen to make an example of an antitrust bully, Microsoft may have few good options beyond good old fashioned competition, which doesn't seem to be working very well for the Redmond giant, as the market share data suggests. Microsoft's loss of IE market power, in turn, could have serious consequences for the company's efforts to compete with Google on the Web."
Too bad the world will end at 2012 ;)
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As they refine their data they'll find Firefox's uptake will slowly increase and overtake IE market share on December 12th 2012.
Razors will have 100 blades by 2050 according to current growth rates.
Informed people don't use IE because MS's attempt to tie it into windows resulted in it becoming the least secure browser for Windows. In the old days when IE crashed Windows crashed, everyone started hating it then, and they've preferred to use anything but IE ever since.
I must say, you are doing very well with your letters.
Nerd rage is the funniest rage.
"Did you know that disco record sales were up 400% for the year ending 1976? If these trends continues... AAY!"
Clearly, people don't feel the price Microsoft asks for IE is reasonable. They should lower it a bit.
Village idiot in some extremely smart villages.
You seem smarter than the average kindergartener...
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Microsoft wants their browser to be popular because their business is all about world domination.
Google wants their browser to be popular because they want more brand recognition, and they want to make sure that nobody like Microsoft can control the means by which people access all of Google's other products.
Apple wants a good browser because nobody will take their platform seriously without one, and they can't trust anybody else to develop a sufficiently Mac-like browser for them.
Mozilla wants their browser to be popular because that's what their company is all about. They're basically the orphaned ugly stepchild of Netscape.
* Ubuntu * OpenOffice * PostgreSQL * Fedora * Zimbra * Firefox * Chrome * Safari
Any I missed?
Opera!
Smivs on the intertubes!
sorry, no one is losing share to Opera.
Back to your corner.
You may be right but trusty ol' Commodore 128 seems to be immune to every web browser attack out there!