Microsoft says FireFox not a threat, but is it?
A little while after FireFox 1.0 was released, Microsoft had this to say:
“Because IE is ubiquitous, you hear a lot more about it, but I don’t think that Internet Explorer is any less secure than any other browser out there,” English said.
Apparently, though, many people are finding it less secure or lesser than Firefox. In the past month, Firefox gained a full percent (according to W3Schools), while IE6 lost .4% to other browsers. Mozilla-like browsers are at about 18% as of some time in November, 2004. This trend has held steady for quite a while and will probably continue for a very long time.
Something else to note is that Microsoft is doing a good job getting people to upgrade to XP, as XP gained 1.2% from October 2004 to November 2004. Macintosh users gained .1% (steady trend as well) and Linux users gained nothing in percentage, but there is a stready trend of gain.
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