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MS Share of Browser Market
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- Subject: MS Share of Browser Market
- From: James Love <love@cptech.org>
- Date: Tue, 18 Nov 1997 18:04:38 -0500
- Organization: http://www.cptech.org
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Edupage, 18 November 1997. Edupage, a summary of news about information
technology, is provided three times a week as a service by Educom,
a Washington, D.C.-based consortium of leading colleges and universities
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MICROSOFT DOUBLES SHARE OF BROWSER MARKET
Over the past nine months, Microsoft has doubled its share of the
Internet browser market to 40%, up from 20% at the end of 1996,
according to a Dataquest survey. Arch rival Netscape still leads with
close to 58%, but that's down from 73% earlier. "If Microsoft's growth
in browser share continues, Dataquest projects Internet Explorer to
reach parity with Netscape Navigator as early as the second quarter of
1998,'' says a Dataquest analyst. "The important battle to watch is the
change by version -- particularly, will Navigator version 3 users move
to Navigator version 4, or will they choose Internet Explorer, or
both?'' Microsoft is currently under investigation by the Justice
Department over the bundling of its Internet Explorer 4.0 software into
its Windows operating system. (AP 18 Nov 97)
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James Packard Love
Consumer Project on Technology
P.O. Box 19367 | Washington, DC 20036
voice 202.387.8030 | fax 202.234.5176
love@cptech.org | http://www.cptech.org