On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Faldegast <faldeg...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> http://marketshare.hitslink.com/browser-market-share.aspx?qprid=1 > Internet Explorer have dropped to below 65 % from 70% in the end of December. > If this continues it means that they will pass 50% market share in less then > three years. You have to be careful with browser stats; due to the fact that each company that produces them is taking a different sample of the internet and extrapolating from it, you can end up with a 'blind men and an elephant' situation (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_men_and_an_elephant) Compare other October data: http://gs.statcounter.com/ IE ALL = 57.17% http://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php IE6+7+8 = 51.22% ALSO, 'global' data does not reflect the fact that there are already countries (AFAIK, they're all in Europe) where not only is IE < 50% but in fact where FF is > 50%! e.g. according to StatCounter: Germany http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-DE-monthly-200810-200911 Finland http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-FI-monthly-200810-200911 Hungary http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-HU-monthly-200810-200911 (again though, compare to another source from Sept. http://www.atinternet-institute.com/en-us/browsers-barometer/browser-barometer-september-2009/index-1-2-3-180.html which shows it as less) > So it seams that we are winning the browser wars. That has been the trend, but note that OEMs have not helped at all; AFAIK Windows preloads still all use IE (though there is light on that front in Europe; see http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/05/technology/companies/05soft.html for example) What we NEED is to convince some OEMs other than Dell that they should at least offer Ubuntu (not misc rebranded whatever distro) on their computers and sure, make a big deal about the fact that Firefox is preloaded as a feature. CK -- Microsoft has a majority market share https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs