Google Chrome steadily becoming more popular; Windows 7 as well
Section: Computers , Software / Applications , Web , Downloads , Web Browsers , Google Good marketing campaigns can do wonders for the product.? Case in point with Google Chrome and Microsoft Windows 7, as they both became more popular in the month of January.? According to Net Applications, Chrome managed to gain popularity in terms of web browsing by stealing popularity from Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox.? In January, Google Chrome had a 5.20% usage share, which increased from 4.64% in December.? IE had 62.18% in January, decreasing from 62.69% in December, and Firefox had 24.41% in January decreasing from 24.61% in December.? I’m not sure if you noticed or not, but our Editor Robert Nelson certainly has, Google had been pushing an intensive campaign for Google Chrome all through late December and January.? Interestingly enough, the most popular browser has become IE 8, which passed IE 6 with percentage usage of 22.31% and 20.07%, respectively.? Windows 7 increased to 7.51% in January from 5.71% in December, and in terms of global usage, it has reached 10%.? Mac has only slightly increased from 5.11% in December to 5.13% in January.? Linux practically stayed the same at 1.02%.? It is worth noting Net Applications probably isn’t the most accurate representation of browser usage because it uses data from 40,000 monitored websites, featuring 160 million unique visitors, and bases it on country population to calculate the appropriate percentages.? Via [ ZDnet ] Full Story ? | Written by Natesh Sood for Gadgetell . | Comment on this Article ?
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Google Chrome steadily becoming more popular; Windows 7 as well
