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Press
Release - March 27, 2007
   
Firefox's
Advance is Stopped by IE 7
Park City, UT
– Janco Associates, Inc. has just released its 1st quarter 2007 Browser
Market Share White Paper. The major findings include that Firefox
increase in market share has been halted with the rapid acceptance of
Microsoft's IE 7,.
The white paper also reports that Netscape's
(NS) browser
version 8 has disappeared as an option with few users committed to it.
Netscape users defer to version 4 as the one of choice. The quality of
the NS browser version 4 is displayed by the number of users who continue to
use that browser as their browser of choice. Currently over 95%
of the browser activity is limited to three browsers: Microsoft Internet
Explorer, Firefox, and Netscape.
New in this white paper are recommendations on which browsers to use and
why. A summary of Janco’s browser market share data can be found on the web
at both
www.e-janco.com/browser.htm and the IT Productivity Center (ITPC)
web site (http://www.itproductivity.org/browser.htm).
The
top four browser market share rankings are: 1st - Microsoft’s IE –
70.52%; 2nd -
Firefox – 13.38%; and 3rd – Netscape 11.85%. The CEO of Janco Associates, Inc., M. Victor Janulaitis said: “Firefox
took off quickly in early 2005 but slowed with the identification of a number
of security issues. Since December 2006 it has lost momentum in it s
quest to gain market share when Microsoft's IE 7 was released to the general
public.” He added, “Netscape’s release of
version 8 is DOA (dead-on-arrival). The marketing of
that product has been ineffective. Even though NS has almost 12% of
the browser market share, in our opinion it is not clear
that Netscape will be a player in the browser market next year at this time
since most of their users are devoted to NS 4 - an obsolete product.”
Trends on Browser Market Share March 2007
- January 2005
| |
Mar-07 |
Jan-06 |
Jan-05 |
|
Browser |
Rank |
Percent |
Rank |
Percent |
Rank |
Percent |
|
Internet Explorer |
1 |
70.52% |
1 |
76.21% |
1 |
85.97% |
|
Firefox |
2 |
13.38% |
2 |
11.07% |
3 |
4.22% |
|
Netscape |
3 |
11.85% |
3 |
8.39% |
2 |
6.30% |
|
Google Desktop |
4 |
1.24% |
|
0.00% |
|
0.00% |
|
Mozilla |
5 |
0.95% |
4 |
1.04% |
4 |
2.06% |
|
Opera |
6 |
0.94% |
6 |
0.61% |
5 |
0.83% |
|
Safari |
7 |
0.76% |
5 |
0.99% |
6 |
0.24% |
|
Other |
|
0.36% |
|
1.69% |
|
0.39% |
|
|
|
100.00% |
|
100.00% |
|
100.00% |
Janco has collected
consistent data on browser activity since September 1997. The data is
collected from commercial sits which a focus on business to business
activity. Janco has over 350,000 data points for each month of the
study as it continues to expand it client base. Janco anticipates
that it will issue an update to it market share data at the end of the
second
quarter of this year. |
