100 million IE7 downloads milestone reached by Microsoft
January 17th, 2007
The official date for the big event was January 8, officials of Microsoft rejoice since the initial predictions noted the transition from IE6 to IE7 would be much slower. Now according to WebSideStory over 26 percent of visitors to U.S. Web sites are now using IE 7, this makes IE7 the second most used web-browser in the US after IE6.
The main competitor of IE7 is Firefox 2.0 from Mozilla. No data was published by Mozilla regarding the downloads made to date but initial prospects indicated Firefox 2.0 made 2 mil. downloads in the first 24 hours and IE7 made 3 mil downloads in the first four days. On the other side IE7 is embedded in the Vista operating system and is now a critical update for Windows XP.
Anyway the battle doesn’t end here, Firefox 3.0 is to be released this year and the IE 8 and 9 are in plan from Microsoft.
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Comments
well… they say they had 100 mil downloads… but my win has downloaded it 3 times ’cause i had a pirated copy of win and couldn’t start the install process…. the conclusion would be that probably 20 mil of those downloads are “fake”… now i have a licensed win :D
I’m sure the main reason for more than half of the downloads it’s the “critical update” thing. If you had a WinXP, IE6 was embedded, and if you make automatic update (as does more than a half of WinXP users)… you now have an IE7. If you make it mandatory, obviously people will do.
I also have the last Outlook patch, and I never used it!
You’re perfectly right. It’s like in the case where they’re saying IE is more popular than Firefox.
That’s only because IE comes already installed with Windows, and there are many computer users out there that have no idea what a PC is but they made a habit in reading their mail ten times per day.
I know there are a lot of people like that. I talk to at least 20 on the phone, daily.