From: mike 


http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2007/05/02/1177788202450.html

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When the Firefox web browser was launched in 2004, the then head of
Microsoft Australia Steve Vamos was quoted as saying he did not believe it
would pose a real threat to Internet Explorer's market share.

He said the additional features Firefox offered, such as the ability to
view multiple web pages within "tabs" in a single browser window,
were not necessarily what consumers wanted.

Mr Vamos, who was recently appointed vice-president of Microsoft's
international online services group, must surely be eating his words now.

Firefox continues to claw users away from IE - the most recent measure by
web analyst NetApplications shows Firefox has a worldwide market share of
15 per cent, compared with 78 per cent for IE.

Recent measures from another firm, XiTi Monitor, say Firefox enjoys an
almost 25 per cent share of the market in Oceania - larger than its share
in Europe, Asia and America.

It has clearly caused a massive dent in the dominance of the Microsoft
browser, which once controlled more than 90 per cent of the market.

And while Microsoft questioned the benefits of tabbed browsing in 2004, it
finally adopted the feature with the release of IE7 in October last year -
the first IE update in five years.

In the same period, Mozilla, the organisation behind Firefox, released two
versions of its browser and is already gearing up for the release of
Firefox 3 later this year....
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