Losing Share in the Browser and Email Wars
Even though it ships free with Windows, Microsoft has for years been losing market share in the browser wars to Firefox, Safari, and more recently, to Chrome. It’s still dominant, but a far cry from its near-monopoly a few years back.
Compare the same stats a year ago.
In the past year, its share dropped from 68.46% to 62.12%
Now, it’s starting to lose its stranglehold on business email hosting. According to The Wall Street Journal, more than two million businesses are using the paid or free version of Google Apps, nearly all of that coming at the expense of Microsoft.
Google Apps, not yet a rival to Microsoft Office is getting better every month.
Disclosure: The GoogleGazer retired his Microsoft Exchange server three years ago, and has been paying to use Google Apps Premier Edition ($50 per user per year)ever since.The GoogleGazer continues to use Microsoft Office 2007 on his desktop; who knows for how much longer.
Chrome OS Hits Microsoft in the Jugular
Google’s fast, free, lightweight and open-source Chrome OS, introduced July 7, 2009 is nearly ready for release.
A plethora of hardware is sure to follow. liliputing says Acer is on track to release devices running Google’s Chrome OS in the middle of 2010 with expectations of shipping one million units in the first year, Acer already makes the Acer Aspire D250 
that dual-boots Windows 7 and Android ), Microsoft’s lock on the operating system will continue to drop.
Free is good.
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