Mozilla to attack when Vista launches?
FireFox recently passed the 100M download mark, only 6 months after they reached 50M. I guess the real question is how many people actually use the browser regularly? On average, say each person has 2 computers (work and home), format twice a year… that 100M could be lower.
…(FireFox) may see a big fall after the leader in the browser market Microsoft’s launches its Windows Vista operating system … alongside the newer version of the Internet Explorer. A Gartner analyst even suggested, “Much will depend on how Microsoft ties Internet Explorer to its big releases next year”.
I wouldn’t be surprised if whenever Vista launches, Mozilla initiates their largest marketing effort to date. Over the summer, the ‘for profit’ arm of Mozilla was formed — see Mozilla re-Structure — and I’m sure one of their goals is to make sure FireFox grows post Vista. Furthermore, large companies in the past have pledged large amount of money to Mozilla, including AOL back in 2003. What I want to see is IBM and Google publicly inject a huge amount of money for a total Mozilla marketing effort.
Below is the 2 year Alexa traffic chart of mozilla.org — growth is obvious. Below that (un-fair) comparison with microsoft.com
