Question: Name a market in which Microsoft does 57 times better than Google…

Answer: Web browsers: according to recent numbers from Net Applications, Internet Explorer has 66.1% of the market, while Google’s Chrome browser sits at a meager 1.4% (in between are Firefox at 22% and Safari at 8.2%).

While 29% of North American households connected to the internet via broadband connections in 2008, Forrester expects that to more than double to 62% by 2010.  We’re also expecting consumer buy-in of cloud computing and netbooks to increase dramatically over the next few years.  As these trends play out, the web browser will assume an ever more important role: the operating system for the cloud.
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