As I have been reporting for several months now Internet Explorer will likely not be anymore the Web browser of choice for the majority of Internet users soon.
Internet Explorer has been rapidly loosing market share since the beginning of 2004 and in just the last 12 months it has left on the table over 20% of its previous loyal users.
The trend, now that FireFox has released its final version 1, has only increased its speed with IE 6 having less than 60% of my publishing network market share in these last weeks of December.
The issue is of particular concern to Web conferencing, collaboration and live presentation companies who have been betting their cards on technologies that heavily rely on IE presence (e.g.: ActiveX) and which may find that their strategic choice in requiring Microsoft internet Explorer is gradually becoming a critical marketing liability that they hadn't planned for.
Who, among conferencing vendors is in and who is out of the Microsoft IE lock?
Find out here:
Web conferencing vendors that heavily rely on Microsoft IE for providing their full functionality and which require IE presence to make their tools work are:
Web conferencing
Oracle Web Conferencing
WebTrain
Voxwire
VoiceCafe product line
Meetrix Freedom Office
HotConference.com
Full collaboration
Groove
Wiredred e/pop
IsoSpace
GRCLive
Videoconferencing
SightSpeed
Viack VIA3
Logitech Videocall
Chatstack
3-D Virtual Meetings
SmartMeeting
Tixeo
I-maginer
Web conferencing vendors that DO NOT depend on the installed presence Microsoft IE to deliver their good features and facilities:
Web Conferencing
Microsoft Live Meeting
WebEx
Interwise
Polycom WebOffice
iVocalize ver. 4
WebConference.com
Communicast
Genesys Meeting Center
Raindance
Readypresent
Netspoke
HorizonWimba Live Classroom
Antarya Boardroom
Claripoint
Avecomm
Userplane Web Chat
Full collaboration
Marratech
WaveThree Session
Convoq ASAP
Linktivity WebDemo
Elluminate
Macromedia Breeze
QNext
Live Conference Pro
Screen sharing
Glance
GoToMeeting
eBLVD
RealVNC
ShareITNow
Videoconferencing
Viditel
VSee Labs
3WVP
FlashMeeting
V2 Conference
FaceToFaceMeeting
Gnomeeting 1.2 - NetMeeting
Live presentations
InstantPresenter
PresenterNet
VirtexC3 Collaborator
N.B.: Some notable vendors, like Oracle, and other less famous ones like Netviewer or iCollaborate have been left out, as it is significant time I have not teste them and also because it is next to impossible to find a section called System Requirements on their site. Even by using a "site search" with Google I was not able to find any information for these two and several other companies.
