It is also worth asking why Netscape, whose browser has the highest market share, should get special treatment.
Whether Microsoft co-opts Firefox's best ideas, or the Web browser continues gobbling up market share, we'll all be using Mozilla's best ideas to access those new applications soon.
Nevertheless, Baidu has launched its own browser and OS to gain market share among mobile users.
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Methodologies of various surveys each have their own flaws and trying to extrapolate handset sales from browser trends can be difficult if third-party browsers like Obigo, Opera or UC Browser are having a major market share swing.
All this leveraging proved highly effective: Netscape's share of the browser market plunged from 80% in 1996 to 30% today.
In the past 12 years since he became CEO the company has lost precious market share of its browser and Office products and watched companies like Apple and Google eat into its Windows monopoly.
But that disparity suggests that momentum will continue to swing in favor of the browser, with Android tablets rapidly gaining market share.
Google already controls search, they are quickly gaining market share to control the browser, and when you put in DNS, it becomes the trifecta of complete navigational control.
The court hearing stems from an anti-trust suit the US Government filed last October, accusing Microsoft of using its dominance with the Windows 95 operating system to gain an unfair market share for its Internet browser, Internet Explorer, over its competitor Netscape Communications Corp.
Of course, Microsoft (MSFT) still dominates with its Internet Explorer browser, gaining more than 40% of market share, while Firefox comes in third with a market share of 25%.
Its own browser, Internet Explorer, has eroded Netscape's market share to little more than 50%, while Java itself has proved to be a technological work-in-progress.
Among other factors, Baidu shares have been under pressure from growing concerns about loss of market share to Qihoo 360, the leading Web browser provider in China, which recently entered the Internet search market.
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