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A survey of 140,000 small to medium-sized business (SMB) users has revealed that the Mozilla Firefox browser is now almost on equal footing with Microsoft's Internet Explorer in the SMB market sector. What's more, the gap is narrowing dramatically every month.
According to Toronto-based online time tracking
and billing services provider, FreshBooks, a survey of its 140,000 plus
SMB customer base showed that Firefox's browser market share grew by
1.35% in February 2007 to an astonishing 38.95%. Meanwhile, Internet
Explorer's share dropped by 0.73% to 56.95%.
The survey also revealed that Firefox were far more prepared to
upgrade to the latest version, with 10.03% being FF 1.5 and 28.92%
being FF 2.0 users in February. By comparison, IE6 users (34.36%) still
easily outnumber IE7 users (22.59%), indicating a greater reluctance to
upgrade.
Microsoft Windows, however, is still by far the dominant desktop
operating system increasing its market share slightly over the month
88.92%, which Freshbooks attributes to the giant marketing push behind
the release of Vista. However, Linux did make a gain off a small base
from 1.54% to 2.01%. Mac OS dropped slightly from 9.04% in January to
8.55% in February.
The increasing popularity of Firefox in the small business space looks
like growing from an annoyance to a serious concern as more SMBs put
the open source browser on their desktops, while conversions to IE7 are
slower than expected.
David Bass
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