Re:What Happened to the Microsoft Monopoly?
by asadotzler on Wednesday June 20, 2012 @07:17PM
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Mozilla owes almost none of its market share to the EU. We earned almost all of our marketshare well before the EU decision requiring microsoft to advertise (not bundle) alternative choices and since that change in the EU a couple of years ago, we've seen very little movement in our user numbers. It may prevent IE from getting as many users, but it splits those users among Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Maxthon and others.
Mozilla owes much of its market share to the EU, which forced Microsoft to bundle competing browers with Windows, and to the collapse of Netscape in the first dotcom bubble.