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Firefox Snags Market Share From MSN by Shankar Gupta, Monday, Mar 21, 2005 7:00 AM EST
THE FIREFOX BROWSER CONTINUED TO cut
into Internet Explorer's market share, according to statistics released
Friday by NetApplications, an Aliso Viejo, Calif.-based company that
offers Web-monitoring products. By the end of February, the open source
Firefox browser accounted for 6.17 percent of browsers--up from 5.59
percent in January, according to NetApplications. During the same
period, Microsoft's browser fell from 90.31 percent to 89.04 percent.
Some say that the downward trend for Microsoft's Explorer could be
significant for the company--which just entered the search space last
month--because browsers can play a key role in search. "The browser has
become central in terms of driving revenue opportunities," said Michael
Gartenberg, an analyst with Jupiter Research.
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