On 28 Jun, Tony Barry wrote:
> Source: THE NET NEWS
> From Alan Farrelly
> June 27, 2000
>
> EVERYONE USES EXPLORER
> Web analysis firm WebSideStory says Microsoft's Internet Explorer is now used
> by 86% of Internet users, with a measly 14% using Netscape. This is based on
> data from 50 million visitors a day to umpteen sites, collected using
> WebSideStory's HitBox analysis technology. Microsoft continues to dominate
> operating systems, with 93.63% percent of Web users worldwide using a Windows
> operating system as of June 18, 2000. See http://www.statmarket.com/
It's going to be very interesting to see how these stats play out over
the next few years. During this period, the number of people accessing
the 'net from non-PC devices is going to increase significantly - and
it seems pretty clear already that Microsoft is not going to have the
same OS/Application stranglehold in this emerging area as it does on
the traditional desktop.
Many of these embedded/post PC devices will have custom web browsers -
either proprietary from some source other than Microsoft or based on the
open source version of Netscape (Mozilla) that is at last approaching a
1.0 release.
-- Robert Hart hartr@redhat.com Red Hat, Inc Phone: +1 650 967 0888 Fax: +1 650 965 7307
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