Firefox


Cool little blurb about browser market share. Seems that IE is loosing (and has been) it’s market share. While Firefox is making gains. I like the little zing that Giz puts in there:

So what do they do? No, not improve the browser. They remove the WGA check on the download, which previously required users to have a legit copy of Windows XP before installing.

So basically they figure they can regain market share by letting users of pirated copies of Windows and those folks still running 95/98/ME have 7, instead of putting the time and effort to design it better and bring it up to agreed upon standards. Sounds like a standard operating procedure for MS to me. Reminds me of a little kid who is proven wrong continuing to throw a temper tantrum. It probably stems from the fact they were wrong about personal computers not ever needing more than 64k of memory! 😉

  1. #1 by djLicious on October 8, 2007 4:15 pm - 4:15 pm

    Silly RnR – the best product is hardly the most profitable (or the one that dominates the market) See e.g. VHS vs. Betamax; minidisk vs. everything else; QWERTY vs. Dvorak; IE1 vs. Netscape; etc.

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