Browser Market Share and Operating System Market Share
White Paper

Microsoft Loses 9% of the Browser Market Share in one Year!!!

AOL Kills Netscape

The Browser Market Share and Operating System Market Share White Paper data is by month starting in September 1997 through the March 2008

Microsoft has lost 8.63% of the browser market in the last 12 months. Looking at the last 12 months, you can easily draw the conclusion that Firefox and Google Desktop are edging away at the Microsoft browser monopoly. As Vista is rolled out to more users it will be interesting to see what that will do to the browser market. So far user acceptance of Vista has been slowed by the lack if user acceptance for the new OS.

Live update did not help in accelerating the acceptance of IE 7, plus with the slow acceptance of Vista individuals and enterprises are not moving to the new version as rapidly as Microsoft would like. An added kicker is those who move to Vista can more readily have multiple browsers on their systems or switch from one to the other quickly and with little pain. The cost of doing that is minimal.

Google Desktop will be the next challenge for Microsoft to face.

AOL Kills Netscape after over $5 billion was invested.....

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.

Internet Explorer market share history

The full study was produced in April 2008 with data through March 2008. See a full copy of the press release here.

Trends in Browser OS Market Share 12 Months - March 2008 - March 2007

Mar-08

Mar-07

Change

Browser

Rank

Percent

Rank

Percent

Rank

Percent

Internet Explorer

1

60.00%

1

68.63%

0

-8.63%

Firefox

2

19.95%

2

15.11%

0

4.83%

Netscape

3

9.68%

3

11.02%

0

-1.34%

Google Desktop

4

4.01%

6

1.51%

2

2.49%

Safari

5

1.65%

4

0.87%

-1

0.78%

Opera

6

1.17%

7

1.29%

1

-0.12%

Mozilla

7

1.32%

5

0.90%

-2

0.41%

97.77%

99.34%

The full report contains charts in jpg format and data by month and quarter for each browser.

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