Microsoft may be losing browser market, but Internet Explorer is still reigning the segment with 45 percent market share. However, Mozilla's Firefox lost the second spot to Google's Chrome, which is now used by 22 percent of the users. Google should be glad to know that its advertising blitz is finally paying off. Chrome is being advertised incessantly on British TV and it is the first Google product to get this privilege. Apple's Safari is favored by 9 percent of the web browser users, and thus it gets to occupy the fourth spot.
Google is touting Chrome for its faster speed, but Lars Bak, the brain behind the browser, claims that it can be made to work even faster. However, Chrome owes some of its success to an anti-trust settlement against Microsoft. Last year, Microsoft was ordered by the European Commission to provide its users with browser choice instead of just locking them with Internet Explorer.
Google is going places nowadays and is posing even bigger challenge to Microsoft. The search giant has just launched ChromeBook with its homegrown Chrome OS. The notebook relies on cloud computing and does not have any local storage.