| | By John Daly in Germany @ Tuesday, March 17, 2009 3:20 PM
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| | Research outfits Janco and IT Productivity Centre are selling some new white papers on the current state of the browser and OS market.
According to the reports, Microsoft's Internet Explorer remained the world's most popular browser and is gaining ground on the open source alternatives. IE held a market share of 72.23% in March 2009, compared to 69.72% twelve months ago. It seems the 2.5% difference year-over-year hurt Firefox. Whilst having the second spot clearly to itself, the open source browser's market share fell by 2.6%, shrinking from 19.78% in March 2008 to 17.18% this year.
Google's Desktop and Chrome offerings fell from 5.02% to 2.78%. One may wonder why Google Desktop was bundled together with Chrome, which only recently saw the light of day. Apple browser Safari ranks in a lowly sixth place, falling from 0.66% to 0.56%. Last and certainly least comes Opera, which is the world's seventh most popular browser - not an epitaph most people would want on their tombstone.
Opera actually managed to gain inroads, its share growing from 0.3% to 0.4% in the last four months. Not that it matters though, since Opera is a major player in the embedded market and earns money with mobile phones, the Nintendo Wii and devices.
Vista is getting a tad more popular, but is still bleeding badly. 'Vista proves that large companies like Microsoft can and do make huge blunders in technology. Microsoft can no longer count on moving users to new products like Vista as quickly as they want,' said Janco CEO Victor Janulaitis. Penetration has reached 19.5%, which is obviously still way below what Microsoft would like to see. X
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