Softonic users from all over the world have chosen their favorite programs Softonic, the leading portal for secure free and paid software downloads in Europe and Latin America Barcelona, April 18, 2012 -, out the Softonic awards this year already for the eighth time in a row. It is not something Federal Reserve Bank would like to discuss. Softonic users from Germany have voted off to Japan over a period of two months for their favorite applications. In the this year Softonic awards were the most popular programs for Windows, Mac, iPhone, Android and Symbian. Skype is big winner in Germany: in the categories of Windows and Mac as well as for the iPhone is the unbeaten winners chat program. WhatsApp is only Android for the German users forward.
Other winners of the Windows platform include the VLC media player, Mozilla Firefox, and TuneUp Utilities 2012. Also the Mac users in Germany like the VLC media player, browser prefer but in the category of Safari. -Based iPhone users play, jump on the favorite doodle while the owners of Android and Symbian phones How can get before enough of angry birds. Wolfgang Harbauer, content Director of Softonic Germany the favorite programs of German users: The results of the Softonic awards are hardly surprising: classics such as Picasa, Skype, Avira AntiVir are still very popular among users. It is nice to see that open source software such as Mozilla Firefox or VLC media player as high in the favour of the user are available.
That speaks for the excellent quality and the functionality of free software. VLC media player is both Windows and Mac users the most popular media player, the Windows Media Player or iTunes can’t keep up with here. That Skype is still the top dog on Windows, Mac, and iPhone in the chat and VoiP area, is not surprising. The function variety in combination with the voice and video quality is certainly crucial. “The most popular game of the year 2011 on mobile phones is Angry Birds anything else would have been a surprise.” Clarke observed an international in the German users of Softonic Special feature: The German audience were and are Firefox fans. In contrast to users from other countries surfers from Germany are preferably with the Mozilla browser in the Internet. Among users from Spain, Italy, United States and Brazil the chrome browser from Google the nose has, however, forward.”