Trends Report

The Battle For The Browser In A Web-Based World

New Productivity Features And Multibrowser Use Benefit Information Workers

April 28th, 2009
SM
Sheri McLeish
With contributors:
Stephen Powers , Keith K. Tsang

Summary

Microsoft's Internet Explorer still dominates the desktop browser market, but that popularity now faces new threats. Mozilla's Firefox continues to steadily creep up in enterprise adoption, Google has jumped in the game with Chrome, and Apple — no slouch when it comes to innovating — recently announced Safari 4 beta, promising to deliver the world's fastest and most innovative Web browser for Mac and Windows PCs. As information workers rely more heavily on the Internet and Web-based tools to perform their functions, information and knowledge management (I&KM) pros must start to leverage today's browser innovations like faster processing, tabs, and new search features to improve information worker productivity.

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