The global view is useful to display some technology trends.
So the sharing of the web browser is one example for a trend. The market leader can be recognized at a sight. Figure 1 shows the usage of the browser for February 2008 and March 2008. The open source browser Firefox is present with 27 percent in February and the Internet Explorer with 72 percent (figure 1). Now you can see that the allocation of the Internet Explorer is decreased in the following month.