Microsoft Browser Market Share Slips Slightly
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Microsoft Corp.&#39;s (MSFT.O: Quote, Profile, Research) share of the browser market slipped slightly in recent months but still dominated with 92.
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Although Microsoft still dominates the web browser space, its Internet Explorer continues to lose market share to open-source rival Mozilla.
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There are more signs that, at least in theory, the dominance of Microsoft&#39;s (Nasdaq: MSFT) Windows operating system may be slightly less potent than, say, a year ago this time.
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The Motley Fool - The Mozilla Foundation, the creators of the open-source Firefox browser, has predicted that by the end of 2005, it will have 10% of the browser market. It doesn't take rocket science to realize that's a swing at Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT - News), given the near ubiquity of its Windows operating system and its Internet Explorer browser.
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That should have been said a long time ago. After Microsoft cemented a monopoly of the Web-browser market, it let Internet Explorer go stale, parceling out ho-hum updates that neglected vulnerabilities
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Microsoft&#39;s Internet Explorer browser continues to lose users to rivals such as Firefox and Opera, a Web analytics firm said Thursday.
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Firefox&#39;s share of the US browser market grew by more than a third in the last month. Firefox&#39;s share of the US browser market grew by more than a third in the last month, a Web metrics firm said Monday.
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Google lost ground in the U.S. Internet advertising market for the first time in two years during 2007 due to&#160;slower growth in the fourth quarter, market researcher IDC said Monday.The Internet search giant saw advertising sales growth slow to 40 percent year-on-year in the fourth quarter, down from 50 percent year-on-year in the third quarter, IDC said. That blip cut Google&#39;s advertising market share in the U.S. to 23.7 percent in the fourth quarter, down 0.5 percentage points from the third quarter.The decline comes despite continued strong growth in Internet advertising in the U.S., according to IDC.U.S. Internet advertising few 27 percent year-over-year in 2007 to $25.5 billion, while total U.S. Internet ad spending in the fourth quarter alone rose 28 percent compared to the same time in 2006, IDC said. Companies continue to shift ad spending to online media from traditional media, according to the market research company.Google&#39;s fourth quarter decline could spell opportunity for its rivals.A&#160;merger between Microsoft&#39;s Internet businesses and Yahoo&#160;would give the combined company a market share of 17 percent in the U.S. Internet advertising market based on fourth quarter data, IDC said in a statement. While the figure would leave Microsoft-Yahoo behind, &quot;it would give them a much better fighting chance than if they went it alone,&quot; IDC said.Google could not immediately be reached for comment on the IDC report.&#160;
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Forty-five days and some 13 million downloads after its official release, Mozilla&#39;s Firefox browser is showing undeniable momentum -- but does it signal the beginning of the end to Microsoft&#39;s monopoly over the basic software used to access the Web?
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Stocks were set to open slightly lower  on Monday as Microsoft Corp. MSFT.O begins to trade  ex-dividend, weakening technology shares and offsetting a  welcome drop in crude prices.
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For those who remember the browser wars, Microsoft seems to be missing in action from the latest battle. In recent months, upstart browsers such as Firefox and Opera have lured more than 10 million users away
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Opera Software, the maker of the No. 3 Web browser, reported a third-quarter net loss Friday that was more than three times greater than the year before, despite an increase in revenue. Its shares fell 6.5 percent.
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Mozilla&#39;s Firefox browser continues to steal market share form Microsoft&#39;s Internet Explorer around the globe. According to a report released by a German Internet
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Mozilla&#39;s Firefox is gaining ground, and fast. In the beginning of this year, Microsoft Internet Explorer was almost fully controlling the market on its own.
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Usage of Microsoft Internet Explorer continues to fall in the United States, dropping 1.09 percentage points to 91.80 percent of the browser market last month, more than triple the rate
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The proportion of surfers using Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) has dropped to below 90%, say web analysts.
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Microsoft&#39;s Internet Explorer&#39;s share of the browser universe slipped nearly a full percentage point since September, giving more hope to open-source rivals such as Mozilla&#39;s Firefox that the trend is not a fluke.