Almost 25% of Europeans use Firefox

The images above are from xitimonitor.  Once Microsoft loses control of the browser market, things may unravel quite quickly for the Redmond based company. IE  is integrated tightly with MS Office, and, I suspect  Microsoft's .NET strategy .  (after all, if innovations need to made, it's nice to make modifications on both  the server side and the client (IE) side).  With Microsoft now forced to make its online  offerings work with Firefox, Microsoft is now at the level of any other Web 2.0 company, without any of its usual built-in advantages. 

It'd be interesting to see at what point MSFT stock starts to tank. Will we see Bill Gates rush back from an early retirement?