Microsoft Skeptical of Firefox's 1 Billion Downloads
It seems Microsoft isn't exactly bowled over by Mozilla's claim of one billion Firefox downloads.
Most of you were pretty pleased to hear that Mozilla had reached one billion downloads. Given that a lot of you use the browser, you were happy to hear you played a small role in something so huge for the company. However, it seems Microsoft isn't exactly convinced of Mozilla's achievement. According to The Guardian, Amy Barzdukas, a general manager at Microsoft in charge of the company's Internet Explorer browser, said that Mozilla's recent milestone announcement made for "interesting math."
"It's an interesting number and I have not seen the math [but] how many internet connected users are there? 1.1 billion, 1.5 billion, something in that area," Barzdukas said.
Mozilla's one billion figure includes every update and all downloads since Firefox's 2004 launch. Do you think Mozilla is correct in its claim? Let us know in the comments below!
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Nah its obviously complete rubbish if it claims every update is a download. That means I alone have downloaded mozilla about 20 times, when in fact I have downloaded it about 3 times after reformats etc.
kinda dl'd it for a few machines my self, plus all the updates for each one.... plus the re-installing of it a few times...... sounds plausable to me.
Its more then possible especially if it includes updates, I've followed FF since sometime during late version one and I've always had it installed on both my PC and my laptop, I've also installed it on most the work PCs as well, so I alone have probably downloaded or updated it 100 times if you include new PCs and formatting.
ok - so lets do the math...given firefox has been up and running for nearly 6years.
6 x 365 = 2190 days. 1,000,000,000 Downloads / 2190 Days = Roughly 456,621 Downloads...everyday for 6 years! LOL
also note the, how many internet connected users are there? 1.1 billion, 1.5 billion, something in that area. Some users may have upwards of 1 computer
ie work. office. gaming etc
i've downloaded FF more than 100 times and i'm not the only one with this.
With all of the updates that Microsoft push out .. why don't they release their own figures?
"Windows downloaded 50,000,000,000 times ??"