And they say it's hard to conquer the browser market. Despite Microsoft's global domination, there are some places where Firefox is a vastly dominant browser. One of them is Antarctica; according to StatCounter's recently added feature, GlobalStats, in 2009, only one browser was used there.

I'm guessing the data comes from one user - and he's using Firefox.

Don't believe me? Check out the graph below. If you go a bit further back in time, you'll find that Internet Explorer also came on top at times, perhaps because of those pesky Windows Updates. But, this year, it's all about open source, baby!

Looking at the operating systems used, Windows 2003 stands at 80 percent, with Windows XP holding the other 20 percent. Unsurprisingly, Google is the only search engine used. As far as the mobile browser market is concerned, Antarctica is still virgin territory. So, if you have an iPhone, and you don't mind the coldish weather...