Asia has a pretty Microsoft-centric tech culture.

India's probably got the most downloads because of the large IT industry there. There's a large population but most don't have access to computers. Compare that to China, where many more people have access to computers, but the Firefox 4 download rate is much lower.

Indonesia's the exception - Firefox has a share of something like 80%. No idea how that happened.

Japan's pretty tech savvy as well and has a high rate of technology penetration.

Asia is pretty MSFT-centric, but I was a little surprised that on my trips to the Philippines, beginning in 2009, I began seeing a lot of Firefox installations, even Firefox-only, on a lot of boxen in the Internet cafes there. So it seems the tide is turning.

It probably has more to do with a lot of asian companies imposing tight restrictions on what can/cannot be installed on work computers rather than a microsoft-centric tech culture.

Here is a pretty interesting blog post from Gen Kanai (a mozilla-guy) about Indonesia:

http://blog.mozilla.com/gen/2010/06/29/mozilla-in-indonesia-...

> Asia has a pretty Microsoft-centric tech culture.

Which is a good thing for Microsoft but a bad thing for Asia.