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Date: 1998-10-01

Brauser/krieg: Explorer ueberholt Communicator


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q/depesche 98.10.1/1
updating 98.9.30/2

Brauser/krieg: Explorer ueberholt Communicator

Die neueste Untersuchung weist dem Communicator 41,3 Prozent
Marktanteile zu, Micro/softs Explorer stieg auf 43,8 %.
Hauptursache für diesen Zuwachs ist offenbar die
Zwangsbe/glückung aller America Online User mit dem Internet
Explorer.
Dass es im Brauser/krieg weder Gut noch Böse gibt, sondern
zwei Companies, die erbittert um Marktanteile kämpfen, zeigt
sich auf der URL below. Nachdem ein gravierenden
Sicherheitsdefizit im Communicator offengelegt worden war,
gab es von Seiten Netscape erst gross/mäulige Dementis, dann
wurde der Bug repariert. Blitzschnell - dies immerhin
unterscheidet Netscape von Micro/soft.

http://www.shout.net/~nothing/cache-cow/index.html
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Elinor Mills
San Francisco Sept. 30, 1998, 10:01 a.m. PT
Microsoft's Internet Explorer has inched past Netscape
Communications' browsers in U.S. market share, aided by
America Online subscribers who are forced to use IE,
according to a new study by International Data Corp.

Netscape lost nine points of market share, dropping to 41.5
percent from 50.5 percent at the beginning of the year,
while Microsoft's browser gained 4.7 percentage points for a
total of 43.8 percent of the market, IDC concluded in its
study.
...
AOL is solid in homes and has made good progress in small
businesses, whereas Netscape lost nearly 10 percent share in
both those segments in the first half of the year, Brigham
said. Netscape has also lost about 9 percent of its share in
the medium and large business market in the last six months.

IDC's Study May Be Slanted The study's slant toward home
users and its timing unfairly skewed the results in
Microsoft's favor, according to Chris Saito, director of
client product marketing at Netscape.

Of the nearly 1000 telephone survey respondents, more than
670, representing more than 60 percent of the total, were in
the home market while the other markets--small business,
medium and large business, government and education--had
only just over 100 respondents each. "They didn't get a good
reach from the other markets," Saito said.

Meanwhile, Saito said Microsoft's practice of bundling its
software onto PCs, over which the U.S. government has sued
Microsoft claiming it is anticompetitive, has the most
impact in the home market. "We believe our market share is
strong in the business and education markets," at 47 percent
and 67 percent, respectively, he added.
...
"Netscape is clearly hedging its bets on a pure web
implementation and tying Navigator 4.5 much more closely to
their portal Netcenter," Brigham said. "And that's risky
'because portals are not a sure thing whereas Microsoft
tying [its browser] to an operating system where they have a
monopoly is pretty much a sure thing in the very least for
the next five years."
...
Brigham said Netscape should keep its portal strategy but
also diversify its offerings, as well as work to increase
its ISP partnerships. "Microsoft has a lot of ISPs locked
up, [and] the PC bundles are locked up, so they're going to
continue to be pretty prominent in front of all the new
users coming online."

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http://www.idg.net
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