On the Internet Explorer blog Tony Chor — Group Program Manager at the Internet Explorer team — is writing that Internet Explorer 7 now has 100 million installations.

The only browser more popular than IE7 in the US is its predecessor, Internet Explorer 6.

Now, 100 million might seem impressive, but keep in mind that Microsoft made Internet Explorer a high priority update, which is bound to make the number of installations rise fast.

But hat aside, it somewhat surprises me, that the majority of Internet Explorer 6 users apparently has chosen NOT to upgrade their browser, even tough it's rated as a critical update.

If Internet Explorer 7 was that big a success, shouldn't there be more IE7 users than IE6 users? Or is there a lot of pirated Windows XP Service Pack 2's out there? Or have I got this all wrong?

And are there any numbers on the usage and/or number of installations of the various Firefox versions?

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Tags: Browsers, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Microsoft, Mozilla

Browsers, Microsoft Comments 2 Jan 16th, 2007

2 Responses to “Why 100,000,000 IE7 installations maybe aren't that impressing”

1. ffextensionguru Says:
   January 17th, 2007 at 00:44

   Considering I could never get SP2 to install correctly on my machine plus I removed the spyware WGA from my system so that is two strikes against me getting IE7.

2. Lars K Jensen Says:
   January 17th, 2007 at 00:51

   Yeah — I hadn't though of those — but yes that's also factors involving the spreading of IE7.

   I don't think that less than half of the IE6 users has removed the WGA, but they might be using another OS than XPSP2…

   // Lars

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