Netsters replace IE with Firefox
p2pnet.net News:- “Security concerns prompt Internet Explorer defections”
That’s a current Google headline (7:08 Pacific) based on a Reuters report in Indian Express, and Firefox biting off Microsoft’s browser market, says the Chinese state news agency, Xinhua.
Even more to the point, The Fox is in Microsoft’s henhouse (and salivating), says ABS CBN News in the Philippines.
In other words, it’s Firefox up, IE, down. And the whole world is paying attention.
Brtiain’s PCÂ World has IE Continues to Lose Grip on Market and its report states:
“Between the beginning of December and mid-January, IE’s market share dropped 1.5 percent to 90.3 percent, while the Mozilla Project’s Firefox browser rose 0.9 percent to a total of 5.0 percent, according to market researcher WebSideStory. Researchers have shown Explorer’s market share falling since June, when WebSideStory had its market share at 95.5 percent.
“Other browsers, including Opera and Apple Computer’s Mac-only Safari, also gained just under 1.0 percent to 2.1 percent, WebSideStory said.”
Is Microsoft listening to Chicken Little and will we soon see amazing new IE developments as Bill and the Boyz try to shore up their browser?
Stay tuned.
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January 22nd, 2005 at 5:30 pm
I think that we are seeing the first situations in which Microsoft will falter in it implimentation of updates and security fixes. It has come to the point that Misrosoft is to big for its own good and it is now that the general public can start to see it. I.E. by design cannot ever be as good as Firefox because M$ has too much revinue to be lost by actually making their software safer. Microsoft would be cutting their own throats by making their software standards compliant.
January 22nd, 2005 at 8:59 pm
Death to the Facist Insect that Preys upon the Lives of the People.
January 22nd, 2005 at 9:48 pm
As a relatively new Linux user it makes me proud to see M$ loosing shares and struggling to keep up with a browser that benefits everyone and not just a group of centralized-power mongers.
I would eventually like to see all facets of capitalism fail in this same way: by loosing ground to a popular idea that is by the people and for the people.
To hell with M$
January 22nd, 2005 at 10:02 pm
You’re just a communist.
January 23rd, 2005 at 1:49 am
So?
January 23rd, 2005 at 2:54 am
er, yeh, i think
January 23rd, 2005 at 6:04 am
hey buddy, this isnt the 1950s. its not an insult to call someone a communist. no one is going to be blacklisted if you label them a communist. no one is going to jail… so relax.
January 24th, 2005 at 4:56 pm
It is not Communism that FireFox and other open source is taking out the Software Cartels. It is Capitalism in its highest degree. I love it because it means that everyone can compete, not just the ones with control over the media. Word of mouth is a better way to advertise than the Microsoft-vested media outlets. I love the money I have made from selling used computers with a new lease on life. I also like the fact that I can load a homebuilt or restored computer with top quality media authoring software, games, office suites, and much more without charging my customers one red cent extra and without spy or adware. I challenge any “Microsoft Business Partner” to do the same with windows. This is what is fair competition, and Microsoft is beginning to lose. Microsoft’s connections with the other Cartels are not helping now are they? Microsoft and other members of cartels are now resulting to misleading advertisement to destroy the competition. Microsoft is still King of the Desktop, but for how long? Finally, capitalism is coming back to the software industry.