I guess Microsoft can ice those plans for IE development now...
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There have been a spate of stories in the last couple of days about the "slowing growth" of the Firefox browser. Let's just take a sample article from HardwareGeeks.com... Firefox Growth Rate Slips
Most the articles dwell on how the growth of Firefox is cooling down, and how this could be the zenith of the Firefox revolution. But let's look at some of the material in the article...
According to a report released by WebSideStory a web analysts company, the growth rate for the Firefox browser has slowed down.
Firefox 1.0 which made its debut in November with a two page ad in the New York Times, saw its market share grow 34% in the first five weeks of its release. Since that initial surge the growth rate for Firefox has slowed down and in the past five weeks ending February 18th the market share growth was just 15%.
Since the release of Firefox the market share has grown to 5.9% while Microsoft’s Internet Explorer has fallen to 89.9%. This will be the first time that Internet Explorer is under 90% in years.
According to stats gathered at the Firefox website there have been well over 25 million downloads of the browser.
It was expected that the Firefox growth rate would slow down but many users and fans of the browser were hoping that Firefox would hit a 10% market share by mid-year. At the current growth rate that seems unlikely, however it may hit 10% by year end something which Mozilla expects.
So in reality, Firefox has helped push IE under 90% usage for the first time in years, 25 million downloads have occurred, and they could still hit 10% by the end of the year. On, and they "only" grew 15% this month... "Only"? Most software companies (or any other company for that matter) would kill for a 15% increase in a month...
Media sheep...
There have been a spate of stories in the last couple of days about the "slowing growth" of the Firefox browser. Let's just take a sample article from HardwareGeeks.com... Firefox Growth Rate Slips
Most the articles dwell on how the growth of Firefox is cooling down, and how this could be the zenith of the Firefox revolution. But let's look at some of the material in the article...
According to a report released by WebSideStory a web analysts company, the growth rate for the Firefox browser has slowed down.
Firefox 1.0 which made its debut in November with a two page ad in the New York Times, saw its market share grow 34% in the first five weeks of its release. Since that initial surge the growth rate for Firefox has slowed down and in the past five weeks ending February 18th the market share growth was just 15%.
Since the release of Firefox the market share has grown to 5.9% while Microsoft’s Internet Explorer has fallen to 89.9%. This will be the first time that Internet Explorer is under 90% in years.
According to stats gathered at the Firefox website there have been well over 25 million downloads of the browser.
It was expected that the Firefox growth rate would slow down but many users and fans of the browser were hoping that Firefox would hit a 10% market share by mid-year. At the current growth rate that seems unlikely, however it may hit 10% by year end something which Mozilla expects.
So in reality, Firefox has helped push IE under 90% usage for the first time in years, 25 million downloads have occurred, and they could still hit 10% by the end of the year. On, and they "only" grew 15% this month... "Only"? Most software companies (or any other company for that matter) would kill for a 15% increase in a month...
Media sheep...
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IE7 is still vapourware at this stage. That being said, Microsoft annoucements have proven to been highly successful deterrent to change in the past, so it will be interesting to revisit the Firefox numbers toward the end of the year.
Posted by Richard van Geilswyk At 08:33:27 On 01/03/2005 | - Website - |