mark2 Posted April 28, 2005 Report Share Posted April 28, 2005 The registers Microsoft unveiled details of a "more secure" desktop operating system this week, news emerged that the company's browser is losing business users because of - among other things - security.A survey of 168,000 surfers hitting business web sites has found Internet Explorer has lost nearly two percentage points of market share. IE's open source nemesis Firefox, meanwhile, doubled its presence.Janco Associates found IE had 83.7 per cent of the market for this month, down from 84.85 per cent, while Firefox grew from 4.23 per cent to 10.28 per cent. Janco believes Firefox could take 25 per cent market share in the next quarter.Separately, Infocraft reported the browser is approaching nearly 50m downloads, up from February's milestone figure of 25m, which was recorded 99 days after Firefox 1.0 became available last November.Janco's chief executive, Victor Janulaitis, said, "There's a lot of people who say: 'I'm tired of Microsoft. The one thing that has gotten us, is Microsoft knows about security defects, but it takes a long time to get it fixed'."Maybe this will make M$ speed up IE7 and fix IE's security problems quicker too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CurlyWhirly Posted April 28, 2005 Report Share Posted April 28, 2005 I'm not surprised as after trying Firefox out for the first time a few weeks ago, I much prefer it to IE now. It has a slicker feel to it. I know that andsome has recently had trouble with it, but if Firefox was really as bad as what he makes out, then it's market share wouldn't be rising at the expense of IE! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark2 Posted April 28, 2005 Author Report Share Posted April 28, 2005 I've had a look at some stats for a website I have access to, and the the figures are interestingTop 15 browsers/variants account for a total of 65% of visits, 12% being firefox Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CurlyWhirly Posted April 28, 2005 Report Share Posted April 28, 2005 I've had a look at some stats for a website I have access to, and the the figures are interestingTop 15 browsers/variants account for a total of 65% of visits, 12% being firefoxThat's quite a high percentage for Firefox considering it's only a minority browser! I wonder whether people will revert back to IE when version 7 is released though?Only time will tell :rolleyes: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb Posted April 29, 2005 Report Share Posted April 29, 2005 I wonder whether people will revert back to IE when version 7 is released though?Only time will tell :rolleyes:I don't think so; Firefox development is not standing still, and I think we will see 1.1 out before IE7. Firefox 1.5 and 2.0 also are already under development. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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