Tag: MARKETSHARE

So, get this: while Windows 7 only accounts for 6% of the global operating system market, 23% of Steam gamers are using Windows 7! digg_url = 'http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2010/01/23/steam-shows-massive-adoption-of-windows-7-by-gamers/'; The breakdown shows a lot of statistics, including average processor speed (2.5GHz) and NVIDIA (65). You can even see the split between 32- and 64-bit ...

It's the second of January 2010 and the figures are in from December. In just 16 months, Chrome has caught up and passed Apple's Safari browser. Google Chrome now has 4.63% of the global market share, while Safari has only 4.46%! It doesn't look like a lot when you're talking about a fraction of a percent, but when you consider that last month Chrome only had 3.93% you can see just how quickly ...

The Firefox army is hundreds of millions of soldiers strong. After successfully taking the southernmost continent on the globe, the Mozilla Militia continues to run full speed ahead across Europe. Today's battlefront: the central region. As you can see in the header image, Firefox and IE recently crossed paths. The chart shows data gathered from nine countries - Czech Republic, Bulgaria, ...

The year of 2007 is coming to an end, and so, it seems, is Microsoft's attempt to regain some ground in the hotly contested search market. According to the data, Microsoft has two main troubles: getting people to use Live Search, and converting people to using Live Search as their main search portal. Translation: they ain't doing so good. The latest statistics published by Nielsen Online give ...

According to French analytics company Xiti Monitor, Firefox is no longer a niche player in Europe, with 23.2% of European web surfers using the open source browser, up from 19.4% in April. More telling are some of the individual countries' figures, with Firefox holding about a third of the browser share in six countries including Germany, Poland, Hungary, and Slovakia, and about 40% in Finland ...

While Firefox's market share reached 15 percent in the US last month, eWeek is reporting that it's hit 13.71 percent world wide. However, the browser's spread has been hindered by recently publicized security flaws and lingering incompatibility issues, especially in the corporate sector. eWeek also cites trouble in the form of IE7, which Microsoft will push out as an automatic update, as well as ...