Microsoft's Browser Market Share Eroded over 9.5% in White Paper Released by Janco

Business Wire, Sept 7, 2007

PARK CITY, Utah -- Janco and the IT Productivity Center have just released its Browser and Operating System Market Share White Paper. The major findings are that in the last 12 months Microsoft's browser market share has eroded by over 9.5%; Firefox maintained its number 2 browser position with an increase of 5.6% in the same period; Google Desktop is gaining market share; and Netscape version 8 is dead. New in this white paper are recommendations on which browsers to use and not use. A summary of Janco's browser market share data can be found on the Janco's web site (http://www.e-janco.com/browser.htm) and the IT Productivity Center's (ITPC) web site (http://www.itproductivity.org/browser.htm). In addition, the full white paper with Excel spread sheets can be purchased at both sites for $249.

The top five browser market share rankings are: 1 - Microsoft's IE - 63.86%; 2 - Firefox - 17.40%; 3 - Netscape - 10.21%%; 4 - Google Desktop - 2.38%; 5 - Mozilla - 1.40%. The CEO of Janco Associates, Inc. and the ITPC, M. Victor Janulaitis, said: "The positive glow on Firefox was dulled in with the identification of some security gaps in Firefox. But the real story is the erosion of Microsoft's market share." He added, "Netscape's release of version 8 has become a non-player."

One additional finding in the report is that Microsoft's new Operating System, Vista, now has 5.69% of the market of business and enterprise users who browse the Internet.

Janco has collected consistent data on browser activity since September 1997. The data is collected from commercial sites that focus on business-to-business activity. The IT productivity Center anticipates that it will issue an update to its market share data at the end of the fourth quarter of this year.

Janco Associates is a Mountain States-based consulting firm that publishes the HandiGuide[R] series of books used by enterprise executives and professionals as the source of information on topics from Infrastructure, Technology, and HR. In addition to its electronic book and survey publishing, Janco also publishes award-winning business software. IT Productivity Center has a focus on metrics and IT Infrastructure.