IE 8 and Google Chrome Browser
Every time a new version of IE, when released, are Google and other companies to win market share a good time. 2009 browser wars will lay the foundation for the next few years.
Chrome browser, this year’s outstanding achievements, development version has been upgraded to 4.0. Chrome’s real fast, rather than IE8 as unworthy of the name. In fact, Microsoft released IE 8 on much of the information is wrong, this is only to defend market share of Microsoft’s move.
While IE 8 the number of users over Chrome, but Google still wins.
Winning side: Google
Operating System: Google Chrome OS and Windows
Both do not have much competition this year. While Google has released Chrome OS program, but this is not much threat to Microsoft Windows.
Winning side: Microsoft
Operating System: Android and Windows Mobile 6.5
Microsoft has clearly lagged behind on the battlefield mobile phones. This year, Microsoft failed to release Windows Mobile 7, but only to a small number of Windows Mobile 6 upgrade, released the Windows Mobile 6.5. At the same time, Google Android operating system, released within a year, two major versions, and is used by a variety of mobile phones.
2010, both in this area would be increased competition, but this year the leading Google.
Winning side: Google
Search Engine: Google Search and Microsoft will be
Microsoft will be (Bing)’s performance exceeded expectations, but Google still an absolute advantage.
This year, Google search and Microsoft’s market share will be on the rise. According to the U.S. Internet market research company Net Applications 11 months of data, Google increased its market share 2.3%, will be increased 0.1%.
Both sides signed respectively with Twitter, Google in the search results by adding real-time search functionality, will be then open a separate page displays the Twitter search for information.
Google’s dominant position by virtue of the increasingly strong and to try to real-time search and the development of superior capabilities, in this round to win.
Winning side: Google
Enterprises contest
Microsoft’s efforts to retain customers, to prevent them from switching to Google Apps, but Google is by providing a lower license fee and the total cost, to seize market share.
Almost immediately, Google announced Google Apps remarkable achievements when Microsoft decided to lower its licensing fees. Microsoft has never admitted to reduce the license fee and the pressure from Google in any way, but it certainly shows that both sides of the battle.
While Google announced Google Apps has a 2 million corporate customers and 20 million users, but did not specify how many users of these figures to use only Google Apps, and how much to paying customers. Google Apps Standard Edition is free, but only allows businesses to create a limited account, and does not include high-level version of some of the features.
This year battle Google in the enterprise is difficult to win, but the company will not give up the contest next year with Microsoft.
Winner: Microsoft