While Firefox is pushing on the PC side (4.3mn downloads so far), Opera claims it’s leading on the mobile platforms ( "We’re beating Microsoft by a 10 to 1 margin in [cell] phones", says Jon von Tetzchner, CEO of the Norwegian browser maker in BusinessWeek). Add to this the rumours of Google’s own browser… : Microsoft dominance of the browsing market should be weakening.
It is surely going to be. For once, I have switch to Firefox and I am very much happy with it. But it might take a long time for Microsoft to come down from their 90% market share. Especially of course as Windows keeps updating itself and installing IE, up until the next release in 2006/7, for which Microsoft is having a single team dealing with both web and native desktop rendering…
It will take some efforts for people to browse happy.
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