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Press
Release -
May 23, 2008
   
Firefox Loses Market share
The Browser and Operating System Market Share White Paper has just
been released by the IT Productivity Center
Park City,
UT –
Janco has found the Firefox has lost some market share in
the last three months. Victor Janulaitis, the CEO of Janco said, “With
the demise of Netscape and the release of Vista Service Pack 1 users
have stopped jumping on the Firefox bandwagon.”
The summary findings in Janco's June 2008
Browser and OS Market Share White Paper are:
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Firefox’s market share now is 15.05% versus 19.06% in
January 2008
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IE’s market share is 65.50% versus 66.72% in May 2007
and 61.06% in January 2008
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Netscape’s market share has remained at the same
level (10.64%) as before the announcement that it would no longer be
supported.
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Google Desktop is gaining in popularity and now
commands 3.27% of the market
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Microsoft’s Vista continues to have a slow acceptance
and is on approximately 14.55% of internet connected desktops.
A summary of Janco’s browser market share data can be
found on the eJobDescription web site (http://www.ejobdescription/browser.htm).
In addition the full white paper with excel spread sheets can be purchased
at both sites for $249.
Firefox Browser Market Share History
Browser Market Share Changes
May 2008 to May 2007
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May-08 |
May-07 |
Change |
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Browser |
Rank |
Percent |
Rank |
Percent |
Rank |
Percent |
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Internet Explorer |
1 |
65.50% |
1 |
66.72% |
0 |
-1.21% |
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Firefox |
2 |
15.05% |
2 |
16.08% |
0 |
-1.02% |
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Netscape |
3 |
10.64% |
3 |
10.19% |
0 |
0.44% |
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Google Desktop |
4 |
3.27% |
6 |
1.77% |
2 |
1.50% |
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Mozilla |
5 |
2.18% |
5 |
1.47% |
0 |
0.71% |
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Opera |
6 |
0.98% |
7 |
2.01% |
1 |
-1.04% |
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Safari |
7 |
0.95% |
4 |
0.83% |
-3 |
0.12% |
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98.56% |
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99.07% |
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One additional finding in the report is that
Microsoft’s new Operating System, Vista now has over 14% of the market of
business and enterprise users who browse the Internet.
Operating Systems Market Share
for Internet Users May 2008
The IT Productivity Center has collected
consistent data on browser activity since September 1997. The data is
collected from commercial sites that focus on business to business
activity. The IT productivity Center anticipates that it will issue an
update to it market share data at the end of the fourth quarter of this
year.
About
the IT Productivity Center
The IT Productivity Center is a division of Janco
Associates' Inc which
is a Mountain States
based consulting firm that publishes the HandiGuide® series of book used by
IT, HR and other professionals as the source of information on topics from
PC Polices to job positions and responsibilities. In addition to its
electronic book and survey publishing, Janco also publishes award winning
business software.
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