Exploring the reality behind exclusionary deals with Microsoft and their subtle (yet severe) implications
From the first 3 days of 2009 in BoycottNovell:
Browsers (Top 10)
Browsers Grabber Hits Percent
Firefox No 519212 78.3 %
MS Internet Explorer No 57479 8.6 %
Mozilla No 28859 4.3 %
Safari No 13961 2.1 %
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ram said,
January 6, 2009 at 7:13 pm
We have long had a similar result on our (industrial products, not consumer) website. Likewise we never saw more than a 57% share of Microsoft operating systems even during the peak of the dot-com boom.
Seems to me the whole ‘monopoly’ thing was just a sales tactic.
Roy Schestowitz said,
January 6, 2009 at 7:15 pm
The share of Microsoft operating systems here is below 50% most of the time (46.9 % last month).
Shane Coyle said,
January 6, 2009 at 8:39 pm
We have a somewhat specific demographic – many GNU/Linux users/supporters/enthusiasts, and even the folks here on Windows are generally technically proficient – again a demo that is less likely to use IE than "Joe Six Pack".