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Thursday 26 October 2006

ie7 Adoption Rate: Faster Than You Think?

The fantastic Ajax Experience Boston conference just wrapped up. It was an excellent event, attended by well-known industry luminaries alongside young Web developers and designers aching to learn as much as they can about JavaScript, Ajax, Rich Internet Apps, and something that’s made me very happy: A drive to understand great document structure and CSS.

The following transcript and video is an excerpt from Chris Wilson’s presentation. Chris is the Platform Architect for Internet Explorer. Here, he’s discussing why he believes the adoption rate of IE7 will be faster than we might think.

You can enjoy the video I grabbed of Chris presenting this information, in .mov format (2meg), provided here with express permission of Jay Zimmerman on behalf of the Ajax Experience, and Chris Wilson.

[There have been three million downloads of IE7] ” . . . and that’s in the first four days. From that, I think you can probably extrapolate actually the adoption curve is probably going to be fairly steep.

And as to the Windows XP question, turns out nearly 90% of the Windows based web share is running on XP. It’s running on XP or server 2003 actually, which we do offer IE7 for. So we actually hit 9 out of 10 users today and that continues to ramp up. Like the XP share continues to get bigger as people upgrade machines, or buy new machines, frequently.

So I think that you’ll actually see, and granted this is a little early since we’ve only been out for five days or something, you’ll actually see the curve on this will quickly be clear how soon we’ll get to ditch IE6 and I can’t really predict that, but I think you’ll find it’s going to be quicker than what most people expect today.”

– Chris Wilson, Microsoft

I’m sure there are many opinions to share, so have at it by entering your comments here.

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  22. Rspre says Thursday 30 October 2008 at 11:43

    I host about ten sites at the moment, and have watched the curve of IE7 adoption rise in relation to the type of content each site has. I didn’t expect, however, that visitors of the non-web-related sites have adopted it much, much faster.

    I haven’t really decided, yet, what exactly that says about the visitors to either end of the spectrum…

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  37. Sözcü says Monday 12 January 2009 at 04:53

    I just complied the stats on my sites at work, already at 2.8% with IE7, I can’t wait to see the stats at the end of the current month, hoping for a speedy transition with MS deploying via Windows update from today(?) I think.

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