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Microsoft claims 17 per cent of US Windows 7 users run IE9
WEB BROWSER TINKERER Microsoft said it has managed to get 17 per cent of Windows 7 users in the US to install the firm's Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) browser.
Microsoft launched IE9 amid much fanfare, claiming it had significant improvements over previous versions including support for hardware acceleration and most importantly HTML5. Since IE9's release, Microsoft has brought out support for a further 53 languages, bringing the total up to an impressive 93. However Microsoft's Roger Capriotti, director of Internet Explorer product marketing was pleased to announce that 17 per cent of US Windows 7 users have downloaded IE9.
For Microsoft, IE9 was its final chance to stop Internet Explorer from sliding into oblivion as it faced stiff competition from Apple's Safari, Google's Chrome and Mozilla's Firefox. The early reviews for IE9 were positive and the browser is considered to be the best Microsoft has produced, but history shows that accolade isn't quite what it is cracked up to be.
Microsoft released IE9 for Windows Vista and Windows 7 users, leaving users of the still popular Windows XP in the lurch. It is interesting then that Capriotti urged users of IE6 to upgrade to a 'modern browser'. Given that Windows XP users can't upgrade to IE9, users are left with only non-Microsoft options, not that it is much a problem.
If Microsoft thought that not offering IE9 to Windows XP users would force them to migrate to Windows 7, that strategy seems not to have worked. Instead, it appears to have backfired by driving the loss of Internet Explorer market share.
According to Capriotti, Microsoft's IE6 countdown website has received an impressive 1.5 million unique visitors since March. Capriotti said that Microsoft's efforts to rid the world of IE6 and IE7 has "positive momentum" as he declared that worldwide usage of the two older browsers dropped by almost a full percentage point in May.
Capriotti didn't say where that one per cent went, but it's safe to say that its rivals must be happy as Microsoft effectively markets their alternative browsers by pleading with Windows XP users to dump the old versions of Internet Explorer. µ
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MS raised the download rate by sneaking it in as a critical security update. I think IE9 is just awful. and what the heck is Bing, I set my search engine to Google only and Bing pops up with a foreing language, I live in US of A not Mexico Dammit.
The company policy changed so that IE9 had to be installed, however virtually all staff are using Firefox or Chrome for preference. To access Microsoft's site you need to use IE, otherwise why use it.
I still have ie6 I think, I never use IE so why bother with keeping it updated?
They dont get it. They are still comparing Windows XP to the latest offerings from everyone else. Funny enough XP still wins most categories. XP was close to perfect. Windows 7 is just that much closer.
IE9 is pretty good its just slow with anything Java which is what everyone benchmarks it with and then claims speed victory over IE9. However when it comes to security there is no comparison. I will wait an additional half second for more security than safari, chrome, and even firefox as much as I do like firefox.
Dear Lawrence,
IE9's hardware acceleration is built on graphics features in Vista and in Win7 that do not exist in Win XP. You seem to forget that fact over and over again - or did you never get it?