Why Google Chrome Market Share won't go up too high

This is a follow up to our previous post from yesterday when Google Chrome launched. You've probably heard what the analysts have said, but I will say what I think is going to happen here. I'm sure you all know how slow Internet Explorer is compared to other browsers, and yet it still holds the dominant market share position. In the day that Google Chrome released, it has already gained 1% market share. But it probably isn't going to go up much higher than that and there are many reasons for that. I highly doubt it will ever overtake Internet Explorer, unless google starts making Operating systems as well...

Let's take a look at the three main groups of browser users.
1)Ordinary people who are too lazy to get a new browser. After all, it's just browsing, what do you need in a browser?

2)People who are volatile in terms of browser usage, the people that actually care about which browsers are better, and have the time to change.

3)Developers. Generally, developers would want to know exactly what each browser can see, and their compliance with their websites. Obviously, they would want to try out the browsers for themselves, and maybe do some testing here and there.


Out of those 3, which do you think is the biggest group? If you guessed 1, you are right. In fact, 1 is about 3 times larger than the rest combined. This is illustrated by the fact that there are 3/4 of people using the internet that uses (possibly) the slowest and most inefficient browser out there. If they're sticking to Internet Explorer like this, it's probably because it is preinstalled for them, and they don't want to bother doing anything. This category is unlikely to change because of this.

The second category may change to google Chrome, however, Google chrome is severly lacking in addons and cuztomizations or features that all the other competing browsers have. I think most people will just stay with what they have, unless chrome gets a significant update and gets a lot more features in the full release.

This last category is the smallest of the 3, and developers WILL have to try the google chrome. However, for the same reason as the one above, they will probably just be trying it out, and then going back to using their old browser.

Really, IF google chrome does gain significant market share, the biggest loser will be Firefox. Although it is unlikely that they will gain significant market share. Why would firefox be the biggest loser? Because Firefox users use Firefox for it's capabilities and customizations, unlike the IE users, who use it because they don't care about their browser. Don't expect Chrome to suddnely surge up in market share, because it's not going to happen. Of course, just like the IE8 Beta, Chrome is also still in beta, as such, more components may be added, which will have an impact on their success.

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Microsoft finally shows new interest with IE8 Beta 2

A while ago, Internet Explorer 8 beta 2 was released to the general public which meant it was ready for some general testing. Most of the new features on IE8 were created to catch up with all the much better competing browsers. However, there were some good new features that make it unique. Of course, lots of criticism has also come up, saying how bad IE8 compared to other browsers like Firefox. But it's a Beta, so you shouldn't expect too much from it. I was pretty surprised to see how far IE8 had progressed from IE7, but it still has a ways to go.

Here's a brief review of the unique features of IE8 Beta 2:

The accelerators, which were called activities in Beta 1, are definitely a great improvement and very useful tool in general for most people. With plenty of different activities to choose from, and probably plenty more to come (it's open to developers so custom accelerators can be built), it'll provide convenience for the users. It's kind of like AnswerTips except with a lot more options.

Web Slices is also a new feature that is helpful to get you the information you want from your favorite websites without having to load them. I personally won't have much use for it because I don't check for updates to things much but they are useful and you can think of it as a mini feed reader that reads websites instead of feeds, which is quite interesting.

Their new tab system is also much improved and shows that they are starting to innovate on existing features. Now, tabs are color coded in groups, so that whenever you click on a link to go to a new tab, the new tab will be in the same color category for easy browsing. You can also close groups of tabs together.

They've also got the visual search which is in my opinion pretty useless. It really doesn't do anything to help you search for better results unless all the search results look the same except for the images.

By the way, if you haven't tried beta 2 yet, I suggest you don't. It's highly unstable and has many bugs which are bound to happen because it's still a beta. There are enormous amounts of errors that can occur, and it sometimes closes by itself randomly. Fortunately, their backup system is great! It actaully boasts the ability to back up your tabs properly and quickly. Also, it can just close one tab after it finds that only one tab is responsible for errors.

That pretty much sums up IE8 beta 2, except I should mention that with IE8, the IE line of uncompliant browsers will stop. Now, webmasters' two CSS sheets are no longer for IE and the other browsers, but instead for IE7+under, and IE8+firefox and all the other compliant browsers. I hope IE8 will prove to be a great browser. After all, IE still holds the dominant position in terms of market share, which means most people are still plagued by IE7's lack of features and performance and are putting up with it by being too lazy to switch, or just want to be loyal to Microsoft. IE8 still has a lot of catch up to do, but at least Microsoft seems to be finally showing some interest in this browser field.
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Unwrapping the 3D with Unwrap Mosaic

This brand new technology demoed by Microsoft (Click for Video) is capable of allowing people to edit certain things onto video objects as easily as it can currently be done with digital photos.

"What we've done is built away of patterning the essence of a video in a single pattern," said Andrew Fitzgibbon, who presented the technology Tuesday at the SIGGRAPH trade show in Los Angeles. The key to that technique is that unwrapped or flattened image."

The research technology was dubbed Unwrap Mosaic. Like it name suggests, it works by unwrapping 3D objects into a sort of flat image.
Here's what I think of it. It's a great advancement, but it was to come sooner or later. Although the aspect that really differs from the editing in the movies I find quite interesting. If anybody wants to edit a face, then in the movies, it would be done by using a model of the face. But this brand new technology can edit moving video directly. Although it remains a research technology for now, we can hope that it will become widely available soon.

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