Quote:Windows still has a 85% market share in the OS market. IE holds a 50% market share on desktops. MS Office is near ubiquitous, even on Macs. Sure, it's not quite the lofty highs they had in the 90's but MS is still very much the company to beat. 

 

But they do not own the internet, no one really owns the internet. Nor do they own computing, because there is a lot more to computers than the OS, browser and office suite.

There are a lot of conflicting reports for market share on browsers.  Some have IE as high as 58%, while others have it as low as 19%.  


Statcounter lists Chrome as the winner with 48.7%, and IE at 23%

W3 Counter lists Chrome as the winner at 38% and IE at 19%

Wikimedia lists Chrome as the winner at 45.9% and IE at 11.7%

NetApplications lists IE as the winner at 58.3% with Chrome with 19.3%


NetApplications has admitted though that their statistics are skewed.  And that they use a weighing system.  I'd say that W3 is probably the most accurate of those, but it'd be difficult to really say for certain.

 

MS Office however dominates the market share.  Though I personally prefer and use Apache Open Office (because it's also free), I think MS Office will probably always dominate the market share in regards to that.  I think that IE use however will continue to decline.  As we get a more tech savvy generation, we have people who are less likely to just use what's already on the system, and actually take a few minutes out to download their favorite browser.  IE often just can't do what people need it to do.  And web programmers tend to like it less than less.  

 


 

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