Should I be surprised at this take-up statistic, IE6 versus IE7?
Perhaps not, but nevertheless I am. I would have at least expected the reverse, IE7 to outweigh IE6. For a long time (years) Windows users have been fed Windows XP SP2 and that installation process was one of several that encourages people to turn on automatic updates. Automatic updates push IE7 out automatically, giving the user the option to reject it if they want.
All this is dull and known to most. But I was just plain surprised at the way around these two statistics were, 56% IE6 and 44% IE7.
Nice to see from the full report that Firefox is nearly 20%:
- IE
- 816 / 70%
- Firefox
- 215 / 19%
- Safari
- 95 / 8%
- Other
- …the remainder
Taken from around 1,000 unique visits to a website over a few days, early Oct 2007.
Sigh.. why won’t everyone just get IE7, for the sake of CSS support alone
Wed Nov 28 2007 at 3:04 pm@James Yep. I guess it’s mostly corporates who are scared of if-it-ain’t-broke syndrome plus people with Win Update not turned on and who wouldn’t know about IE7 if it bit them. Frustratingly, a lot of people…
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