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Press
Release -
September 9, 2007
   
Netscape
Dies as Predicted by Janco Over the Last 24 Months
The Browser and Operating System Market Share White Paper has just
been released by Janco Associates..
Park City, UT
– Janco, the IT Toolkits website, and the IT Productivity Center have
just released its Browser and Operating System Market Share White Paper.
The major findings are that in the last 12 months Microsoft’s browser market
share has continued to erode; Firefox has maintained its number 2 browser
position and now is used by almost 16% of all users; Google Desktop is
gaining market share; and Netscape is now in a death spiral as users abandon
it. New in this white paper are recommendations on which browsers to use
and not use. A summary of Janco’s browser market share data can be found on
the Janco’s web site (http://www.e-janco.com/browser.php),
IT Toolkits site (http://www.it-toolkits.com/browser.php),
and the IT Productivity Center’s web site (http://www.itproductivity.org/browser.php).
In addition the full white paper with excel spread sheets can be purchased
at both sites for $249.
On December 28, 2007 AOL announced that they will
no longer support Netscape after February 1, 2008
Netscape has launched version 8 and no one noticed.
From interviews with many users there was a common so what. In our
opinion Netscape built it but they did not come. As we said in our
earlier study, we feel that Netscape is almost invisible with its market
share. The small gain that they had in market share is starting to
erode.
In interviews with selected users, we found that many
of them were turned off by the installation process. We often heard the
comments that the process was ad and pop-up window laden. In addition
several of the individuals we interviewed felt that the “overhead”
associated with the ads in Netscape made it a much less effective tool
to use. However they did say they liked many of the new features,
including tabbed browsing.
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Microsoft Browser Market
Share History
The top five browser market share rankings
are: 1 - Microsoft’s IE – 66.96%; 2 - Firefox – 15.87%; 3 – Netscape –
8.97%; 4 – Google Desktop – 3.00%; 5 – Mozilla – 1.40%. The CEO of
Janco Associates, Inc and the ITPC, M. Victor Janulaitis said: “The
positive glow on Firefox was dulled in with the identification of some
security gaps in Firefox. But the real story is the continued erosion
of Microsoft’s market share.”
Browser Market Share Changes
January 2008 to January 2007
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Jan-08 |
Jan-07 |
Change |
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Browser |
Rank |
Percent |
Rank |
Percent |
Rank |
Percent |
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Internet Explorer |
1 |
66.96% |
1 |
68.77% |
0 |
-1.81% |
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Firefox |
2 |
15.87% |
2 |
14.28% |
0 |
1.59% |
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Netscape |
3 |
8.97% |
3 |
11.89% |
0 |
-2.92% |
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Google Desktop |
4 |
3.00% |
6 |
1.47% |
2 |
1.53% |
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Mozilla |
5 |
1.34% |
5 |
0.86% |
0 |
0.48% |
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Safari |
6 |
1.18% |
4 |
1.03% |
-2 |
0.15% |
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Opera |
7 |
1.16% |
7 |
0.94% |
0 |
0.22% |
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98.48% |
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99.24% |
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One additional finding in the report
is that Microsoft’s new Operating System, Vista now has 9.17% of the
OS market share of business and enterprise users who browse the
Internet.
Operating Systems Market
Share for Internet Users 2008
About
the IT Toolkits Center
The IT Toolkits 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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