http://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php?date=2007-05-20
See Firefox.
Ignore the O/S market share figures because they are sensitive to a lot of
factors, including a small and selective sample set (
http://tinyurl.com/ypwr2h ).
Also in the news:
Toshiba adds AMD as chip supplier along with Intel
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| Until now, Intel has been the sole supplier of the component to
| Toshiba, the world's fourth-largest notebook PC maker.
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http://yahoo.reuters.com/news/articlehybrid.aspx?storyID=urn:newsml:reuters.com:20070529:MTFH77236_2007-05-29_00-43-43_T19722&type=comktNews&rpc=44
One wonders if Wintel had kickbacks going on, just as in the 2 examples
below.
Related:
IE7 uptake stalls
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| Microsoft's new browser hits the wall at 31%; gets no help from Vista
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9018642
Lenovo got financial help from Intel, claim
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| Journalists on the title said Lenovo is being paid a "pretty
| penny" from Intel to use its chips.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37670
Investors sue Dell on payments from Intel: WSJ
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| An investor lawsuit seeking class-action status accuses Dell Inc. of
| improper accounting in its relationship with chip giant Intel,
| according to a media report published Thursday evening.
|
| [...]
|
| The suit alleges that Dell received at times as much as $1 billion
| a year in "secret and likely illegal" kickbacks in the form of
| "e-Cap" or "exception to corporate average pricing" payments"
| from Intel to ensure that Dell used no other chip supplier,
| according to The Journal.
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http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/investors-sue-dell-payments-intel/story.aspx?guid=%7B400315B0%2DE375%2D4920%2DB300%2D784220BEFE35%7D&siteid=yhoo&dist=yhoo
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