Microsoft on the wane?
Comments(0) In a world in which sales of mobile devices is on the way to eclipsing desktop devices, and the browser becomes the starting point for the majority of a user’s experience, does Microsoft have a future?
A study of world mobile browser traffic (PDF) in July, 2008 by AdMob shows that Nokia’s browser dominates the world. The Openwave browser (installed on many low-end phones) is second followed by Access Netfront (used primarily in Asia and on some Palm devices), Opera Mini is next, and Microsoft’s Pocket Internet Explorer (PIE) and Apple’s Safari are further down the list. See more details in a story in Electronista.
Despite having been around for years in Windows Mobile smartphones and Pocket PCs, Microsoft’s PIE can only garner a 4% market share! It’s only slightly ahead of Apple’s Safari (at 2%), a browser that has only been available for a year, and then only […]
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