Shocker: Browser Ballot Screen Made Little to No Difference
When it comes to market share statistics, it looks like everyone’s beloved (or hated) Browser Ballot screen had no drastic effect after all.
While comparing Europe/North America and worldwide market share numbers, Neowin has come up with a conclusion that there is only as little as 1% difference between global and Europe figures.
So here you have it, Internet Explorer “dominance” continues.
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What’s the Browser Ballot screen?
http://static.arstechnica.com/02-19-2010/browser-ballot.jpg
Basically, it allows users to chose browser other than IE (after OS installation or so).
http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2010/02/microsofts-eu-browser-ballot-approved-arrives-march-1.ars
EU only.
“Basically, it allows users to chose browser other than IE”
…or upgrade old IE browser to IE8.
What a weird conclusion, considering the IE drop in Europe is supposedly much higher than North America.
Weird conclusion indeed.
Then again, Neowin was always a bit lame.
Well no offense Opera but it was the most buggy Opera release ever ….. NSL …..
Which they later found out due to there new cache system …
I think it happen because of Opera 10.20 testing .. if they went straight to 10.50 it could had not been happened.
But for the good side Opera 10.70 alpha is really stable for me.
Firefox like hanging .. I always give FF a fair go but it always hanging .. you know does no response fast…
Chrome … googleupdate.exe … spyware or what ? I think it is countware ( well nothing exist in that name) possibly count real time amount of chrome users.
IE 8 take ages to pen a new tab .. animation itself slow ….
Not a surprise to me. As I said in my previous comments – that was to be expected. I’m really happy to see that government intervention into the market failed again (as it always does – directly, or by unintended consequences). Sadly enough it won’t stop EU bureaucratic machine, but its good to know that it still doesn’t have such a control over people.
From the other side they might came up to idea that now they should force distributors/manufacturers to preinstall certain browsers on their devices? ;)
EU: Microsoft’s Browser screen has helped less people to switch than projected. We will gladly charge Microsoft 2 Billion for the mistake.
The screen is only activated if the standard browser is IE! Mostly the “update” (the bailout screen) woun’t be installed by the user and/or the company!
I wouldn’t overestimate this screen until the actual installed preferences gone “lost” (I mean until enough users adopt to win7)….
It must be painful to be that ignorant.
I wouldn’t say that it has failed. And protecting the market from predatory practices is a good thing.