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Microsoft Flops and Loses 7% of the Browser Market in Last 12 Months - Vista
Still Only Used by Less Than 15% of all Users, per Janco
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| Janco and the IT Productivity Center have just released their Browser and
| Operating System Market Share White Paper. The major findings are:
| Microsoft's browser market share has continued to erode and has fallen to
| 58.50% versus 65.48% (loss of 6.96%) in August 2007 and 82.99% (loss of
| 24.49%) in August 2005; Firefox has maintained its number 2 browser position
| and now is used by almost 19% (18.94%) of all users; Google Desktop has over
| 4% (4.01%) of the market; and Time Warner made a strategic error in
| abandoning Netscape as users continue to use Netscape even though AOL no
| longer supports it.
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http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/microsoft-flops-loses-7-browser/story.aspx?guid=%7B20EE86CE-9FF2-4750-A1E9-9467286EDE4E%7D&dist=hppr
Mozilla’s Firefox Wins the “Who’s the Next Open Source Idol” Crown at
LinuxWorld Conference and Expo in San Francisco
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| GroundWork Open Source, Inc. (www.groundworkopensource.com), announced today
| Mozilla’s Firefox was successful in beating out the other three contestants,
| reigning champion “Tux” the Linux kernel penguin, “Beastie” the BSD demon and
| the GNU “Gnu” to become the world’s favorite Open Source Idol.
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http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20080811005403&newsLang=en
Recent:
A discouraging news for Korean open web movement
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| Open Web, a Korean web forum led by professor Kichang Kim of Korea University
| is best known for its fight against rampant use of Active X in Korea, lost a
| lawsuit against the KFTC (Korea Financial Telecommunication and Clearings
| Comittee). Professor Kim accused that the Korean government's mandate on the
| use of Active X programs for the internet banking and other public web
| services should be lifted, as it is against fair trade and "overly favors
| technology from a single company (that is, Microsoft)".
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| Professor Kim has also asserted that as many Korean netizens somehow grew to
| think that Active X is something they have to download anyway, many of them
| are exposed to security vulnerabilities. Also, as so many entities including
| virtually all financial institutes in the nation depend on Microsoft
| technology in Korea, whenever Microsoft announces an update, the whole nation
| has to upgrade its internet infrastructure, and this leads to various losses
| on a national scale - Kim asserted.
|
| But Professor Kim's year-long accusation fell short of convincing the court
| that the government mandate on the Active X is against fair trade and
| therefore is illegal.
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http://www.web20asia.com/306
Related:
The cost of monoculture
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| Korea will only get beyond this problem by 1) applying Korean laws
| on open standards to the certificate authorities, 2) reassigning new
| certificates which work with open web standards to all Koreans, 3)
| reprogramming all Korean websites to support 128 bit SSL which will
| allow for a heterogeneous marketplace of operating systems and web
| browsers. This is a herculean task and thus Korea stays hostage to
| Redmond.
|
| Fascinating history. Unintended consequences and de-facto monopolies
| create costs too high to calculate and must be borne without question.
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http://www.kanai.net/weblog/archive/2007/01/26/00h53m55s#003095
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