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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Charles Arthur

How would it look if the browser choice were by market share?

You'll have read about the defeat for Microsoft at the hands of the European Commission over browsers.

To wit:

Existing Windows users in Europe, including XP users, will also get the ballot screen via a Windows Update download. This will invite them to choose from a list of the 12 most-widely used browsers: Apple's Safari, Google's Chrome, Microsoft's Internet Explorer, Mozilla's Firefox, Opera, AOL, Maxthon, K-Meleon, Flock, Avant Browser, Sleipnir and Slim Browser. The selection will be open to change every six months as market shares change.

But you know that it's just going to be logos shown, each the same size. But how would it be if it were according to market share? We checked NetApps market share stats - though of course you have to allow for different versions of IE, as it's not a single product.

And here's how it turns out. Argue among yourselves about whether IE would ever have had that share if it hadn't broken antitrust law, of course...

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