OneStat reported that Mozilla's browsers have a total global usage share of 11.51 percent. The total usage share of Mozilla increased 2.82 percent since April 2005. Microsoft's Internet Explorer still dominates the global browser market with a global usage share of 85.45 percent which is 1.18 percent less as at the end of April.
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Member since:I would be very curious to see statistics in Germany (and Europe in general) where open source is taken more seriously.
Finland 31,03 %, Germany 24,5 %, Czech Republic 22,4 %, Croatia 20,48 %, Poland 20,34 %, Hungary 19,31 %, etc.
More:
http://www.xitimonitor.com/etudes/equipement10.asp
Member since:Well Onestat is saying bullshit about UK.
For Xiti, UK is around 12% of fx marketshare last september :
http://www.xitimonitor.com/etudes/equipement11.asp
Finland 34,05%
Germany 25,07%
Czech Republic 23,23%
[...]
Greece 16,16%
France 15,98%
Autriche 15,7%
Croatia 15,45%
[...]
United Kingdom 12,19%
[...]
And so on. Around 15% for European Union.
Member since:2005-07-06
These numbers have nothing to do with the education or the IQ of the users of each country...
Curiously enough, I (an American) never thought you were trying to imply anything about IQ, until you said you weren't. :-)
Anyway, the OneStat numbers are quite interesting, putting the USA's usage of Internet Explorer at a lower rate than the rest of the world. The XiTi numbers appear to be different (at least as regards the UK), so they are not really comparable.
When more people own computers, one might think that more people who are less computer-savvy will be using computers, and thus using the internet. It would be interesting to see if there's any correlation between percentage of households that use a computer, and percentage of computer users that use a non-IE browser.
Member since:"Households most likely to own computers are large and have younger and highly educated occupants"
http://www.sltrib.com/search/ci_3163385
Not even all households that have computers have internet access.
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Notice also that the UK users are the most IE fanatics using it 93% of the times which is actually more than the US (85%). In the neighboring Canada the usage of IE is actually less (78%). I would be very curious to see statistics in Germany (and Europe in general) where open source is taken more seriously.
PS: These numbers have nothing to do with the education or the IQ of the users of each country, this is not what I say. They are related to how well open source is marketed.