400 Million Firefox Downloads Bruise Microsoft in Europe But Not Globally | Linux Today

400 Million Firefox Downloads Bruise Microsoft in Europe But Not Globally

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Sep 13, 2007

“Mozilla has hit the 400 million downloads mark for the Firefox
web browser client since it was officially launched in November
2004, a rise of 56 percent in the last 12 months alone. Of course,
updates, reinstalls and trials are all included in download figures
which have little real world impact upon the only statistic that
really matters: market share based upon usage. Again, Mozilla will
tell you, and indeed told me, that it commands a 28 percent market
share across Europe according to the latest figures from
XiTiMonitor which also reveals that Internet Explorer enjoys a 66.5
percent share in the same region.

“Which is a good result for Firefox, no doubt about that, but
how does it pan out when you take a more global view…?”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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