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Windows Browser Ballot: the Winners and the Losers
Barence writes "It's a year since the Windows browser ballot came into being in Europe — but has it made any difference? PC Pro has surveyed the minor browser makers — who theoretically had the most to gain from the ballot — to find out what impact it's had on their business. The answers are very mixed. One of the 12, FlashPeak SlimBrowser, claims it's resulted in fewer than 200 downloads per day. Others claim it's transformed their business. One thing is for certain: the big boys still dominate."
Alas, the difference between -1 troll and +5 funny is, ultimately, a matter of split second timing.
If you mod me down the terrorists will have won
At least it discredited one more excuse used by Opera supporters and other fans for justifying their pet browsers' relatively minuscule market shares.
Extrapolation: because past performance perfectly predicts future growth.
Well it's hard to make something that crappy. No surprise there are so few willing to challenge Microsoft for that crown.