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Highlights from NetApplications data for November ‘08 - Firefox and Vista break 20% mark
Hardware 2.0 —
Firefox usage hits 20% for November . According to NetApplications a combination of the US election (remember that …), Thanksgiving holiday and extra weekend days (the average 30-day month has 8.57 weekend days while November had 10) gave usage a boost. Overall IE market share eroded to below 70% for the first time (down to 69.77% from 71.27% in October). IE6 usage slips nearly 2% (down to 21.53% from 23.47% in October). IE7 usage up fractionally (up to 47.39% from 47.08% in October). IE8 beta beats both Opera 9.x and Chrome 0.3 (IE8 beta: 0.73% | Opera 9.x: 0.69% | Chrome 0.3: 0.68%). Windows Vista hits 20% usage (up to 20.45% from 19.29% in October). Mac ...
Apple, Mozilla gain ground on Microsoft for Web traffic
Between the Lines —
December 1st, 2008 Apple, Mozilla gain ground on Microsoft for Web traffic Posted by Sam Diaz @ 12:56 pm Categories: General , Web Technology , Apple , Microsoft Tags: Web , Apple Inc. , Microsoft Corp. , Web Browser , Mozilla Corp. , NetApplications , Web Browsers , Internet , Sam Diaz When it comes to surfing the Web, a growing number of people used Macs, instead of a Windows computer, as well as browsers other than Microsoft’s Internet Explorer in the month of November. According to a survey by NetApplications reported on Fortune’s Apple 2.0 ...
Windows Drops Below 90% Market Share--Firefox Above 20% [OStatic]
GigaOM Network —
NetApplications is out with a couple of new metrics of market share for operating systems and browsers, and the news is good for open source. Topping their findings, Microsoft Windows'market share has dropped below 90 percent for the first time in its measurements. The share erosion is largely attributed to increased interest in the Mac platform, but Linux is cited as on the rise as well. In addition, for the first time since it launched its metrics, NetApplications' data shows Firefox's market share topping 20 percent.
On the browser front, NetApplications finds Firefox to have achieved 20.78% market share for the month of November, and the ...
Windows Drops Below 90% Market Share--Firefox Above 20%
OStatic blogs —
NetApplications is out with a couple of new metrics of market share for operating systems and browsers, and the news is good for open source. Topping their findings, Microsoft Windows'market share has dropped below 90 percent for the first time in its measurements. The share erosion is largely attributed to increased interest in the Mac platform, but Linux is cited as on the rise as well. In addition, for the first time since it launched its metrics, NetApplications' data shows Firefox's market share topping 20 percent.
On the browser front, NetApplications finds Firefox to have achieved 20.78% market share for the month of November, and the ...
Firefox's Market Share Increases, IE's Falls
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs —
... Chief Executive John Lilly called reaching 20% a "significant milestone" for the open-source Web browser. "It's a huge achievement by the global Mozilla community, one that just a few years ago most would have considered impossible," Lilly said in a statement. Net Applications said Firefox's share jumped about eight tenths of a percent in November, which is much higher than average. The major reasons were the U.S. election, which spurred usage in non-U.S. countries where Firefox is particularly popular; the Thanksgiving holiday and the fact that November had 10 weekend ...
Firefox 3 Beta 2 Update Highlights Private Browsing Mode
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs —
... 2.1 and 3 properties, SVG transformations, and offline applications. Firefox reached a major milestone last month when it broke the 20% mark for worldwide market share, based on Net Applications data. At the same time, it faces renewed competition from Apple, Google, and Microsoft, which all see their respective browsers -- Safari, Chrome, and Internet Explorer -- as critical components of their software stacks. The final version of Firefox 3.1 is expected next year.
Microsoft IE breached by new attacks
The Open Road —
... There is no question that Microsoft's Internet Explorer has become more secure over time. There's also no question that with roughly 69 percent of the global browser market, IE remains a meaty target. ...
Firefox Tops 20% in November, IE Now Under 70%
ReadWriteWeb —
According to the latest data from Net Application, in November, Mozilla's Firefox browser surpassed 20% market share for the first time in its history, while Microsoft's IE7 now only commands under 70% of the browser market. Google's Chrome, which had been hovering around 0.75% after its initial release, saw a small growth spurt at the end of 2008, while Apple's Safari made significant gains during the last year.
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Even though Net Applications' global data for December is still preliminary, IE's decline during 2008 is remarkable, especially given its former dominance of the browser market. ...
Will the Firefox/Google Search Deal Demerger in Russia cause wider problems?
Josh Chandler —
Mozilla’s Harvey Anderson announced via his blog that initial research of Firefox RU users indicated that “Russian users really wanted direct access to the Yandex search services in official Firefox RU builds” and that the default search engine would be changed from Google to Russia based Yandex.ru in the next Firefox release
Anderson mentioned that all changes to the search provider would be included in the next version of Firefox (version 3.1) for the Russian locale and would be included in current beta testing. Firefox has already in the past made a similar move in Asia, changing the search provider from ...
Europe's Antitrust Time Warp: EU Investigating Bundling IE With Windows (MSFT)
Silicon Alley Insider —
... Windows as stiffling compeition. Does that sound familiar? It should. Back in the 90s, American antitrust authorities pursued the same line of attack in United States v. Microsoft. Apparently, the Europeans don't consider the matter settled. Microsoft of course is promising "full compliance with European law" while taking the two months EU law gives the company to respond. Seems absolutely absurd to our American sensibilities. Firefox has over 20% market share, the Mac is on the rise, and Google (GOOG) Chrome is coming, the browser ...
Dries Buytaert on the Future of Open Source
OStatic blogs —
Dries Buytaert is the founder and lead of the open source Drupal content management system, which OStatic and many other web sites are based on. He's also the co-founder of Acquia, which offers a commercially supported version of Drupal. Dries is one of the more respected pundits in all of open source, and we invited him to submit a guest post here at OStatic delivering his thoughts on the future of open source. He obliged, and you'll find his thought-provoking essay here, where he discusses eliminating middlemen, and much more. (Disclosure: Acquia is a sponsor of OStatic.)
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Dries Buytaert on the Future of Open Source [OStatic]
GigaOM Network —
Dries Buytaert is the founder and lead of the open source Drupal content management system, which OStatic and many other web sites are based on. He's also the co-founder of Acquia, which offers a commercially supported version of Drupal. Dries is one of the more respected pundits in all of open source, and we invited him to submit a guest post here at OStatic delivering his thoughts on the future of open source. He obliged, and you'll find his thought-provoking essay here, where he discusses eliminating middlemen, and much more. (Disclosure: Acquia is a sponsor of OStatic.)
Bringing the Power of Open Source to ...
