Liam

Member since: Jan 3rd, 2006

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Windows market share reaches new low - 89.6% (Download Squad)

Dec 2nd 2008 9:44PM As someone who uses the Market Share site to keep up on brower share developments, I find their data useful and relevant, but the above percentage is a bit misleading - it is the percentage of computers on the web. It doesn't take into consideration Windows embedded devices, etc. I don't think Microsoft is hurting too much.
The really interesting numbers are in the breakdown of the OSes: Vista is now at 20% and climbing a point a month. Mac/Intel is climbing steadily, having its first half-point gain last month. The browser side is even more interesting: 1/5 of the computers now use Firefox. That's an amazing share and shows how a good product will gain traction via word-of-mouth. Opera continues to be marginalized and needs to revamp itself if it wants to grow. Chrome has passed Opera in just a few short months thank to the Google cachet drawing in people to give it a try.

Yahoo! CEO Jerry Yang to resign (Download Squad)

Nov 18th 2008 1:22PM Sorry, first few lines were re-witten several times and the tenses were mixed. Garbage editing on my part, mea culpa. Please substitute "I'd absolutely place it on Jerry's head. He overvalued the company he helped create. That's called being too personally involved. Now Yahoo's stock value is in the tank."

Yahoo! CEO Jerry Yang to resign (Download Squad)

Nov 18th 2008 1:04PM I'd absolutely place it on Jerry's head. He overvalued his company as it was his baby that he helped create it. That's called being too personally involved. Now it is in the tank. As for the tween not "committing to Flickr", please it is computers, not religion. You had better hope M$ buys the thing, otherwise it will soon be 'shuttr-ing' its doors. I doubt M$ will buy it now. Yahoo's biggest value was in its employees. After the first failed purchase by M$, many good minds left.

LA Times predicts a Google PC in 2006? (Engadget)

Jan 3rd 2006 2:11PM Are you kidding? Google will never get into the PC market. Google's whole philosopy is based upon web services and internet servers. Becoming a manufacturer or a reseller is a waste of their time and money. How would they make money under such a proposition - ads that appear as the computer boots? This is just a pipe dream from someone who doesn't really understand the shift that is going on. Would Tivo suddenly decide to make a VCR? I don't think so.