Logan Rathbone wrote:
> On 2009-07-19, amicus_curious <ACDC@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> "Ezekiel" <zeke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:h3v2je$ert$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>
>>> "Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>>> news:1576631.2dj8xAiSWD@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
>>>> Hash: SHA1
>>>>
>>>> Celebrate 1 billion Firefox downloads
>>>
>>> And 999,998,000,000 of the downloads have been Firefox for Windows.
>>> That's why Firefox for Windows runs much faster than the Linux version.
>>>
>> Somewhere on the order of 1 billion is the size of the entire installed
>> base
>> of PC world-wide. If Firefox has had such a download experience, why
>> have
>> so many of these installation fallen into disuse? Do people actually
>> prefer
>> IE once they have Firefox installed and cease using Firefox? Or are they
>> just reluctant to do much web surfing and IE users are much more
>> prolific? There must be some reason.
>
> Well, I think a big part of it is the MASSIVE corporate enterprise
> install base. Tonnes of people may go ahead and download Firefox for
> their home machine (honestly, who do you know that actually uses IE at
> home anymore?) but that doesn't change the huge amount of corporate
> workstations that have IE installed by default and may not even give
> their employees permission to install *any* software at all, let alone
> replace the default web browser with something else.
I don't think that your post is addressing a_c's question directly, but you
make what is imo a very valid point.
Over the last 30 days, figures for Europe show:-
I.E. 46.41%
F.F. 39.66%
However, if we break down that I.E.-in-Europe figure, we see:-
I.E.8 = 12.32%
I.E.7 = 24.19%
I.E.6 = 9.87%
The vast majority (almost all) of those I.E.6 instances are on versions of
Windows which *can* run (XP or later) IE7 and IE8.
As you say, that huge chunk of I.E.6 use is most likely on corporate
machines, which have hung on to IE6.
We need to be a bit careful here - this is getting to the stage where we
perhaps ought to be asking the E.C. to investigate the Firefox Monopoly in
Europe! :-)
|
|
