Organisations should not begin a wholesale switch to Firefox in the near term, but should consider ways to manage browser co-existence because that is the most likely long-term outcome, the technology research firm Gartner says.
In a commentary released recently, Gartner researchers R. Valdes, D. Smith and W. Andrews said Microsoft could determine the extent to which it lost browser market share by choosing whether and when to respond to the increasing take-up of Firefox.
They said growth in Firefox usage was driven by factors that were not "inherently sustainable."
"Microsoft's response to Firefox growth is limited by how much it ties a revamped Internet Explorer to the release of Longhorn," they said.
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