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[News] IE Synonymous with Internet: Dumbing-down of Society

The Secret of Firefox's Success

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| "A lot of people don't even know what a browser is," said Firefox
| co-creator Blake Ross. "They think that it's the first thing they use
| on the Internet. They say, 'What do you mean browser, is that Google?
| Is that Yahoo?' It's hard to get people to switch browsers if they
| don't understand the concept."
|
| [...]
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| 240 Million Downloads
| 
| He added that, overall, there have been about 240 million downloads of 
| Firefox software since it launched, but the company estimates there are 
| actually about 7 million to 8 million people who use the browser regularly. 
| That's roughly 12 to 15 percent of Web users, Ross said, many of those 
| being computer savvy.
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/54199.html

Windows labels Internet Exploder "Internet" (the 'remote installation'
utility). Same thing that makes people unaware of alternatives to Windows
while Microsoft forces shops never to show Linux to the public...

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