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Re: [News] Firefox Share Continues to Grow Despite Forcefed IE7 Installations

On 2007-01-17, B Gruff <bbgruff@xxxxxxxxxxx> claimed:
> On Wednesday 17 January 2007 17:35 Erik Funkenbusch wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 17:15:31 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>> 
>>> Despite 100 Million IE 7 Installs, Microsoft's Browser Still Loses Ground
>>> 
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>| Firefox's share of the U.S. browser market is at 14% and has
>>>| continued to grow each of the last three months, says one
>>>| research firm.
>>> `----
>>> 
>>> http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=196901142
>> 
>> Funny, but I thought Firefoxes share *A YEAR AGO* was at 15%, now it's at
>> 14% and it's been growing?  Someone is fudging numbers.
>
> Month    Internet Explorer Firefox  Safari  Netscape   Opera    Other  
> January, 2006    85.31%     9.50%    3.00%    1.17%    0.52%    0.50%  
> February, 2006   85.03%     9.75%    3.13%    1.06%    0.53%    0.49%  
> March, 2006      84.70%    10.05%    3.19%    1.05%    0.54%    0.48%  
> April, 2006      83.88%    10.68%    3.30%    1.06%    0.56%    0.52%  
> May, 2006        84.16%    10.56%    3.26%    0.95%    0.59%    0.49%  
> June, 2006       84.04%    10.77%    3.19%    0.93%    0.57%    0.51%  
> July, 2006       83.56%    11.34%    3.18%    0.91%    0.59%    0.43%  
> August, 2006     83.02%    11.84%    3.21%    0.87%    0.64%    0.42%  
> September, 2006  82.10%    12.46%    3.53%    0.85%    0.64%    0.42%  
> October, 2006    81.28%    12.96%    3.93%    0.83%    0.61%    0.40%  
> November, 2006   80.56%    13.50%    4.03%    0.83%    0.67%    0.42%  
> December, 2006   79.64%    14.00%    4.24%    0.85%    0.87%    0.40% 

   Firefox's share of the U.S. browser market, says Johnston, is at
   14%, and has continued to grow each of the last three months. "I
   thought that IE 7 might flatten Firefox's growth, but it's not taken
   a hit from IE 7. All the movement there has been internal, from IE 6
   users upgrading," he says.

Some of those users have been dragged kicking and screaming into
getting 7. Some got it and found they were hosed before they knew what
hit them.

A number of them have gone back to 6 because they find 7 so buggy. A
few have worked with 7 and learned to live with, overcome or workaround
its limitations. Some worked with it a long time and gave up, going
back to 6. Many are still asking how to get 6 back.

   Another Web metrics vendor, Net Applications, confirmed the switch
   to IE 7 in its most recent data, and also noted the continued slide
   of IE overall.

   According to Net Applications, Internet Explorer accounted for 79.6%
   of all browsers used in December 2006, a drop from the 80.6% during
   the previous month. Firefox's use, meanwhile, measured 14% in
   December, up from 13.5% in November. Also gaining ground in the last
   month of 2006 was Apple's Safari, which climbed to 4.2% from 4%, and
   Opera, which saw its share increase from 0.7% to 0.9%.

   Net Applications' data put IE 7's market share during December at
   18.3%, up dramatically from November's 8.8%. But IE 6 lost more than IE
   7 gained, dropping from 70.9% in November to 60.7% the next month.

Not unexpected. A lot IE 6 users knew they'd be forced to get 7. So
they got while the gettin' was good, went to Firefox or others and
learned to work with them while 6 was still on their machines, before
they found themselves screwed by 7.

   The gain in IE 7 is largely due to Microsoft pushing the new browser
   to end users via Windows' Automatic Updates setting, which is
   usually reserved for downloading and installing security fixes on
   PCs.  Microsoft began issuing IE 7 to Windows XP users through
   Automatic Updates in early November as part of a controversial
   scheme to get the new browser in as many hands as possible as
   quickly as possible.

They shoved it down people's throats, making 7's numbers grow, but
making 6's shrink faster.

Your turn, Erkel. Spin the numbers like a good little shill. Make it
look like IE is growing through some of that creative FunkenMath.

-- 
Windows? WINDOWS?!? Hahahahahahehehe.....

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