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____/ nessuno on Wednesday 02 September 2009 16:29 : \____
> On Sep 2, 5:25Âam, Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> ____/ nessuno on Wednesday 02 September 2009 00:46 : \____
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>> > <Quote>
>> > Last month, Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer posted its largest
>> > market share loss since November 2008, while Firefox reaped nearly all
>> > the benefit, Web metrics company Net Applications said today.
>>
>> > Meanwhile, Google Inc.'s Chrome continued to gain on Apple Inc.'s
>> > Safari, closing to within 1.25 percentage points. At Chrome's current
>> > pace, it will replace Safari as the No. 3 browser in 11 months.
>>
>> > But it was the biggest browser by share, Internet Explorer (IE), that
>> > saw its numbers change the most in August, when it dropped 1.1
>> > percentage points to 66.6%. The slide was IE's steepest since last
>> > November, said Net Applications, when Microsoft's browser plunged by 2
>> > percentage points.
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>> > In the last 12 months, IE has lost 8.6 points of browser share.
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>> > Mozilla's Firefox has collected about half that over the same period,
>> > but last month the open-source browser surged by 0.8 percentage point
>> > to 23.3%, nearly matching its record of 23.8% set in April.
>> > </Quote>
>>
>> http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9137358/IE_tumbles_Firefox_reg...
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>> Net Applications is now "market share", no more than census in the United
^t (important typo)
>> States is "world opinion".
>
> Right, but US statistics are a measure of something. The times I've
> seen browser share measured by country, there is quite a lot of
> variability, with some coutries (I recall the UK) with even larger IE
> fraction than in the US, while others (Finland, as I recall) with much
> larger Firefox.
It's esp. the case with operating systems. There's Comes material that proves
it.
> Zeke whines when he doesn't like the news.
Ah, well... I don't see the Microsoft shills. It's waste of bandwidth and
time. :-) They don't belong here and they violate the charter.
> If it was up to him
> (Microsoft), we'd all be forced to use IE3, which Microsoft only
> improved because of the threat from Firefox. Actually, in an
> important sense, Firefox has already won, because it now commands a
> sufficient market share that it cannot be ignored by web designers, so
> Microsoft's attempts to control the web with proprietary "standards"
> has failed.
They try with Silver Lie now.
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