Qi Xiangdong, president of Qihoo360, argued "safety has become a top priority for people when choosing a browser.
Qihoo360's 360 Secured Browser, which is known particularly for protecting the privacy and data of its users, has increased its market share by 50% over each of the last three quarters, to 8.4% in all.
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If TT can combine QQ software with its Tencent TT browser, it may become a browser with the biggest amount of users in the future," Ding said.
"Its users are Tencent's most prominent advantages. Tencent has developed its own web browser, TT, and hopes to attract some of the 300 million people who are members of QQ, its instant messaging service, to switch to its new system. In particular, Microsoft's share is being squeezed by three local alternatives with a combined market share of 31.1%, and which are "adopting advanced techniques and updating their products continuously," Ding said.
BEIJING: Microsoft, the IT giant, is seeing the online stranglehold previously enjoyed by its Internet Explorer platform in China gradually erode under pressure from a number of domestic rivals, the latest figures suggest.Īccording to estimates from iResearch, Microsoft once held a 96% share of the web browser market in the world's most populous nation, but this has now declined to 57.8%, and the exact total could be lower still.ĭing Li, an analyst at iResearch, said "according to my research, nearly 96% of China's internet users have used an IE browser at some time in their lives, but only 50% of them keep to it regularly now."
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