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Submission + - x86-64 Market Share Hits 10% in December

Submitted by caffeinejolt on Wednesday January 06, 2010 @05:00PM

caffeinejolt writes: In the last 6 months, end-users (i.e. not servers) have been making the switch to x86-64 OSes in large numbers. Growth was strongest in Mac (release of Snow Leopard), but also strong for Linux and Windows. So basically, the number of users who need 4GB or more of RAM has more than doubled in the past 6 months — an interesting trend considering all the recent talk of moving to the cloud, thin clients (i.e. chrome os), netbooks, etc.

Comment Silverlight is the fastest growing plugin... (Score 2, Interesting) 292

by caffeinejolt on Wednesday January 06, 2010 @04:16PM (#30674270) Attached to: Microsoft Wants To Participate In SVG Development

Based on this growth trend, I'd say Silverlight has a future still.

Comment 66.43% of browsers do not support SVG (Score 2, Insightful) 292

by caffeinejolt on Wednesday January 06, 2010 @04:02PM (#30674028) Attached to: Microsoft Wants To Participate In SVG Development

SVG adoption needs Microsoft to gain critical mass. 66.43% SVG figure is based on December StatOwl.com figures.

Comment Depends who you ask... (Score 1) 514

by caffeinejolt on Wednesday November 18, 2009 @12:02PM (#30144580) Attached to: Bing Gains 10% Marketshare

According to StatOwl.com, Bing has around 4% market share. However, it should be noted that they measure traffic driven to actual sites as a result of using search engines for their metrics. So if we assume both ComScore and StatOwl are correct in their reported data. Then around 6% of the new Bing traffic can't seem to find what they are looking for with Bing.

Comment Re:Here are the shockwave stats - could be a probl (Score 1) 130

by caffeinejolt on Thursday November 05, 2009 @05:25PM (#29999984) Attached to: Shockwave Vulnerabilities Affect More Than 450 Million Systems

what exactly does "upgrade movement" mean?

That means that it would appear shockwave users do not frequently upgrade. They probably had to install the plugin to view something and then they forget about it. In this case, this may leave more people open to attack.

Comment Actually - IE6 has over 15% market share (Score 2, Informative) 481

by caffeinejolt on Tuesday July 14, 2009 @04:19PM (#28695587) Attached to: YouTube Phasing Out Support For IE6

This graph shows market share trends for relevant browser versions. Of course, I REALLY wish it was "in the single digits".

Comment This report removes mobile browsers (Score 1) 575

by caffeinejolt on Tuesday July 07, 2009 @05:51PM (#28614643) Attached to: Is IE Usage Share Collapsing?

The StatOwl.com guys have their reports updated for this month. I know one of the guys who runs it and he mentioned they have been working on a bunch of mobile reports to handle just the mobile data.

Submission + - Internet Explorer 6 Will Not Die (statowl.com)

Submitted by caffeinejolt on Tuesday June 02, 2009 @02:04AM

caffeinejolt writes: Despite all the hype surrounding new browsers being released pushing the limits of what can be done on the Web, Firefox 3 has only this past month overtaken IE6. Furthermore, if you take the previous report and snap on the Corporate America filter, IE6 rules the roost and shows no signs of leaving anytime soon. Sorry web developers, for those of you who thought the ugly hacks would soon be over, it appears they will linger on for quite a bit — especially if you develop for business sites.

Comment They Need a Mr. Fusion (Score 0, Troll) 282

by caffeinejolt on Thursday May 07, 2009 @04:53PM (#27866827) Attached to: NASA Running Low On Fuel For Space Exploration

See here: http://images.google.com/images?q=mr+fusion. Mr Fusion was pioneered after problems dealing with Iranians who historically had supplied Plutonium out of the back of their VW Bus.

Submission + - Hotmail Outage (contacthelp.com)

Submitted by caffeinejolt on Friday April 10, 2009 @11:45AM

caffeinejolt writes: According to customer complaints filed on the Hotmail page of ContactHelp.com, it appears that Hotmail had a service outage yesterday lasting approximately 1.75 hours. Some customers reported the reason issued by Hotmail was a power outage. It seems only fair since the Gmail outage in Februrary was reported on Slashdot, that Hotmail get its fair mention as well. Judging from the Hotmail customer comments on ContactHelp.com, I can only imagine what the Hotmail phone support personnel had to go through yesterday.

Comment Flash is only installed on 97% of machines (Score 1) 388

by caffeinejolt on Tuesday April 07, 2009 @08:05PM (#27497707) Attached to: Major League Baseball Dumps Silverlight For Flash

This chart shows that the Flash install base is not as high as some (i.e. Adobe) claim

Comment Chrome has much lower market share than Safari (Score 2, Interesting) 111

by caffeinejolt on Monday March 30, 2009 @06:37PM (#27394959) Attached to: Interview With Google's V8 Author Lars Bak

Over six times less currently. Of course, the general Slashdot usage trends may be different. I am sure Google can steal market share from others though - especially if they release viable Mac/Linux versions of Chrome.

Comment Different JS Versions and DOM/Layout Issues (Score 2, Informative) 41

by caffeinejolt on Tuesday March 24, 2009 @08:02PM (#27322209) Attached to: Crowdsourcing JavaScript Testing

Javascript 1.5 (aka ECMAScript ECMA-262 Edition 3) is what most developers target for good reason. But there are supersets found primarily in Gecko based browsers. But then you throw in the various DOM quirks between browsers and before you know it, programming anything large in Javascript that will be used across a wide variety of browsers can really start to suck due to minor quirks between different implementations. It will be interesting to see how their test cases support/address layout issues, if they do at all.

Submission + - Chrome only one left standing at hacking contest

Submitted by caffeinejolt on Friday March 20, 2009 @12:30PM

caffeinejolt writes: According to an article on Ars Technica: "During a contest at the CanSecWest event, security researchers competed to exploit vulnerabilities in web browsers. Firefox, Safari, and Internet Explorer were all successfully compromised, but Chrome was able to withstand the first day of the competition." Chrome is Google's browser based on the open source Chromium project. The stable Chrome 1.x release has a small, but growing market share with frequent releases.

Comment Hopefully History Will Not Repeat Itself (Score 1) 662

by caffeinejolt on Thursday March 19, 2009 @12:07PM (#27257069) Attached to: Look Out, Firefox 3 — IE8 Is Back On Top For Now

Microsoft has a history of rising up to destroy the browser competition that exists at the time. They also seems to rest on their laurels afterwards in a manner that stagnates web innovation.

This time though, there are a few viable competitors and the Windows platform, while still dominating, has dwindled since the last browser war. So I think healthy competition will hopefully remain in place this round. Nonetheless, Microsoft should not be underestimated - they now see the value of controlling the Web via a dominant browser, and they also have Windows 7 on the horizon, which may or may not increase their OS market share. You can bet on IE8 being a prominent feature in Windows 7 and pushed to existing Windows users.

I wish the underdogs luck!

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