Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Microsoft dominates the web with Windows Live Messenger

According to a recent study, Microsoft enjoys 14% of the Web audience, largely thanks to its instant messaging client Windows Live Messenger.

The firm comScore, which specializes in observation of the Internet audience, comes to an online survey for the month of September, during which he noted the activity of 1.2 billion Internet users around the world . Aged 15 and over, these Internet users spent about 27 billion hours on their computer screen, an average of 22 hours and 30 minutes per head.

The hearing mainly benefits to Microsoft, whose online services represent 14% of the time. This market share is mainly due to its instant messaging program Windows Live Messenger which represents by itself 70%.

Then comes the Internet giant Google with 9.3% of the audience through its search engine and video platform YouTube, his challenger Yahoo! With 6.3% and the community network Facebook with 5.1 % and number of users is growing at over 300 million.

Figures without surprise, when we look at what is happening around you. They are representative uses today, Windows Live Messenger for instant messaging, Google search on the Internet, YouTube for videos and Facebook for social networking.

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