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March 2011
The avast! Antivirus product line has helped AVAST Software WORLDWIDE AVAST SOFTWARE
AVIRA GMBH
16.19%
13.22%
maintain its position as the top antivirus vendor worldwide
MARCH AVG TECHNOLOGIES 11.47%
for the last two quarters, despite a slight drop to 16.19%
2011 ESET SOFTWARE 10.29%
global market share in this report. Avira GmbH and AVG SYMANTEC CORP. 9.47%
Technologies are second and third in global market share KASPERSKY LABS 8.16%
MICROSOFT CORP. 7.04%
with 13.22% and 11.47% respectively. In comparison to the
PANDA SECURITY 4.76%
worldwide data from our December 2010 report, Avira GmbH MCAFEE, INC. 4.38%
shows a considerable increase of 4.96%, which could result PC TOOLS SOFTWARE 1.81%
from a higher percentage of the current data originating TREND MICRO, INC. 1.77%
COMODO GROUP 1.27%
from countries where they have a stronger hold on the
F-SECURE CORP. 1.06%
market. The only other worldwide market share increases EMSI SOFTWARE GMBH 1.00%
were by AVG, with a 1.76% gain from the December report, LAVASOFT, INC. 0.98%
Lavasoft, with a 0.82% rise, and Comodo, with a minimal OTHERS 7.12%
increase of 0.06%.
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Windows Operating System Deployments
This quarter’s North American Windows Operating Systems While Windows XP maintains more than half of the
data shows that the trend away from Windows Vista towards worldwide Windows Operating System market, Windows 7
Windows 7 remains steady. As with our December 2010 continues to increase its market share, and Windows Vista
report, Windows 7 has again increased by almost 6% from continues to decline. This report shows a 3.22% gain for
the previous 3-month period. Further proving the trend Windows 7 and a 2.78% loss for Windows Vista from our
towards Windows 7, Windows XP has a market share lower December 2010 report.
than 50% for the first time in our reports, which span the
past 9 months.
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Peer to Peer Application Market Share
Of the 92,647 reports collected, 42,309 peer to peer (P2P) P2P APPLICATION MARKET SHARE
applications were detected. For the purpose of this report, MARCH 2011
we define a P2P application as a product with public file
sharing as its primary function. Based on this definition, we
UTORRENT 30.32%
have excluded Skype and Opera from the chart below. ARES 15.19%
EMULE 9.70%
While some consider Skype a P2P application, file sharing is BITTORRENT 6.03%
only possible between contacts, rather than publicly, PANDO 4.60%
between peers. Opera has P2P capabilities, but it would be BITCOMET 4.35%
LIMEWIRE 4.28%
impossible to determine from our reports whether it was
FLASHGET 4.28%
being used for P2P functions, or just as a browser. If added to MYSTER 4.04%
the data, Skype would have 23.70% of the market and Opera BEARSHARE 3.33%
would have 34.60% VUZE 3.27%
IMESH 2.39%
FROSTWIRE 2.17%
Conclusions SHAREAZA 0.65%
Though not quite as dominant as the top three antivirus SOULSEEK 0.56%
BITSPIRIT 0.48%
vendors, the top three P2P applications control more than
DC++ 0.46%
half of the market, with a combined 55.21%. BITLORD 0.39%
OTHERS 3.54%
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