Gen, I've noticed that many of the pirated versions of Windows XP including variants of the immensely popular "Dark Edition" and "Cool Edition" started including FF in their installation scripts a couple years ago but some Thai editions actually started setting FF as the default browser after the localized version became available at the end of last year.
I do not have exact figures, but from what I see, the market share of pirated versions of Windows here is in the ninetieth percentile. It's pretty common practice here for vendors to advertise new PC prices as "sold without OS," or "Linux installed," and then to load pirated versions of Windows before selling them... They do sell licensed versions, but they aren't very popular to say the least, what with one license costing almost as much as a normal office worker makes in a month here in the upcountry (in Bangkok a normal office worker could buy two or three licenses with one month's salary) Once the default browser was set, it would be a non-issue for most users, I think, since many users probably wouldn't know what it is. ///////////////////////// There are some teachers at my university (myself included) who really spread the word about FF after the localized 3.0x version came out, mostly because we wanted every bit of precaution available against the huge problems we face on our networks with viruses, malware, botnets, and the the like. I'm sure there are other similar efforts at other campuses; in these cases localization was key because the typical user here won't use an English version of FF if a Thai version of IE is available. - Justin On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Gen Kanai<[email protected]> wrote: > Mozilla is seeing a significant growth in Firefox users in Thailand in > the past 3 months. Around 17% growth, which is one of the highest > rates. > > I know this is partly due to the hard work of the Thai Firefox > localizing team but do you know if there is another reason why Firefox > is particularly popular in Thailand right now? We are trying to find > out if there are any Internet trends in Thailand that we do not know > about. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Barcamp Thailand" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/barcamp-thailand?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
