Greg Miller wrote:
> Scott I. Remick wrote:
>
>> My observations were that people didn't "switch" as much as the tidal
>> wave of NEW users chose IE because:
>>
>> - Microsoft stuck it in Windows and made them use it for other things
>> anyway.
>> - MS gave it away for free (something Netscape eventually had to
>> follow, resulting in NS loosing a lot of income and therefore
>> financial means to fund more browser development).
>
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> Don't forget AOL. Gartner (as I recall) used to track some interesting
> stats. As I recall, the last set of stats I saw from them indicated that
> just over 40% of IE users said they used it because MS gave it to them
> (in Windows) and they didn't see any need to look for an alternative.
> Another 40% or so (slightly smaller than the previous group) said they
> chose it because AOL gave it to them and told them to use it.
So if AOL puts Mozilla into their next version of AOL, you are looking
at just under half of IE's users being converted to N6/Mozilla. What is
current market share? Something like 20%/70%/10% (Netscape/IE/Other)?
If 40% of IE's users convert to Netscape, the figures change to
48%/42%/10% immediately.
