Comments on: OS & Browser Market Share History

By: arjay

arjay — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 11:54:08 +0000

Though I doubt M$ would like it, cause they’d loose 70% of their share once people see how great Firefox is. Can’t say anything for Safari on Windows, though I did read it was buggy.

I don’t know about Firefox’s greatness, so far its been crashing on me, and I don’t know what to do. I use it only because it is the one that opens my Yahoo mail whenever I click the “mail” button on Yahoo Messenger.

Safari was ok, never crashed on me, but its not my type. I use Vista Home Premium, btw.

On the iPhone OS, thats just the way it is. 50% of my internet surfing (mostly checking email and Facebook) is done on my iPod, just because I don’t have a laptop and I’m in school (sometimes during class).

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 07:21:06 +0000

Firefox was created for web standards purposes but it 1-upped IE in a completely different aspect (i.e addons) which suddenly became very important after Web 2.0’s popularity. If most people simply surf the web and use different services with their computer instead of using an installed app, the browser naturally becomes the most important piece of app, it becomes the entirely gateway to the internet eXPerience. Apart from standards support, MS failed to understand this when they disbanded the IE team. And now even when they can create a flexible ecosystem around IE like they’ve done with Windows, they don’t do it because for enterprises it’ll be HELL troubleshooting various instability issues arising due to IE’s addons, which may tarnish IE’s image. Now, the whole focus for me using Firefox has changed. I started using it for superior web standards support, but now I won’t touch any other browser till it has these many addons.

Meanwhile, looking at the marketshares, Windows has something to fear from OS X but not much from Linux inspite of all the Linux media hype. MS’ve sort of acknowledged at different times in indirect subtle ways that they screwed up with Vista because of its rushed schedule and they’ll get things right in Windows 7. But again, they’re foolish in being more focussed on Google rather than Apple. OS X will never acquire the % of Windows marketshare because of its closed hardware-locked model, but even if it does touch 20% (which it’ll surely by 2010), that’s a slap in MS’s face.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 04:23:27 +0000

Microsoft definitely wouldn’t be happy about that, but I definitely think something like this will be happening in the future. As Firefox continues to get more mainstream PC retailers will want to deliver the products that the consumer wants, and if they want Firefox then they will provide it. (especially since it wouldn’t cost them a dime).

By: Amak

Amak — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 02:23:39 +0000

I wish that regular home users had a choice in browsers when they buy their pc’s. Maybe a chart like Vista had in stores. Though I doubt M$ would like it, cause they’d loose 70% of their share once people see how great Firefox is. Can’t say anything for Safari on Windows, though I did read it was buggy.