Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 11th Apr 2006 18:30 UTC
Analytics firm comScore Networks announced Monday the results of its February measurement of instant messenger usage around the world, with Europe surpassing the United States in IM users for the first time. MSN Messenger was also ranked as the most used client, garnering 61 percent of the worldwide market. According to the survey, 82 million people in Europe use instant messaging software, amounting to 49 percent of the online population. In the United States only 69 million of people use IM, or 37 percent of the online population. Latin America had the highest IM penetration covering 64 percent of Web users.
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Your argument is moot. By not devoting endless amounts of money and manpower into porting a product to a platform you have never extrinsically supported in the past, you automatically "want to kill it"? To extend your simple views, any company who doesn't port their application for Windows to Linux wants to "kill Linux"? I'm not saying Microsoft doesn't want to "kill Linux"; in fact, I'm sure Steve Ballmer has detailed his wish to "kill Linux" strewn with colourful language many times in the past. Scope of support is hardly an indicator of a company's most extreme intent. If I release a piece of software but cannot afford to support it, do I whole-heartedly want to kill it? Think before you post.