The vice president of business Mozilla Harvey Anderson, published this week on his personal blog an interesting perspective on the number of downloads of Firefox. He says that according to their estimates, if Microsoft had included the browser choice screen in Windows 7 SP1 in Europe, Firefox would have up to 9 million downloads.
Anderson says Microsoft failed to comply with the European Union's determination to display the screen of choice for almost 18 months. The problem was in the Windows 7 SP1, which was released in early 2011 and did not come with a screen of choice, something Microsoft has assigned a "failure" unspecified. During this period, says Anderson, Firefox lost between 6 and 9 million downloads.
Still on the numbers he cites the release of Windows 7 SP1 without the screen, the daily downloads of Firefox fell on average 63%, remaining at 20 000. After correction, this number increased to 50 000 per day, representing an increase of 150%. And with that, Firefox ended up losing a few percentage points of market share - 3.5% during the whole period.
It was only in July this year the fault was corrected and the screen began to be shown again, something that garnered some problems for Microsoft with the European Commission. But to the chagrin of the Redmond company, this does not help much: Internet Explorer saw its share fall too slowly during the period that the screen was not displayed.
Anderson says Microsoft failed to comply with the European Union's determination to display the screen of choice for almost 18 months. The problem was in the Windows 7 SP1, which was released in early 2011 and did not come with a screen of choice, something Microsoft has assigned a "failure" unspecified. During this period, says Anderson, Firefox lost between 6 and 9 million downloads.
Still on the numbers he cites the release of Windows 7 SP1 without the screen, the daily downloads of Firefox fell on average 63%, remaining at 20 000. After correction, this number increased to 50 000 per day, representing an increase of 150%. And with that, Firefox ended up losing a few percentage points of market share - 3.5% during the whole period.
It was only in July this year the fault was corrected and the screen began to be shown again, something that garnered some problems for Microsoft with the European Commission. But to the chagrin of the Redmond company, this does not help much: Internet Explorer saw its share fall too slowly during the period that the screen was not displayed.
