IE7…
October 11, 2006 | Filed Under Geek, Work
One of our IT guys asked me about the upcoming release of IE7 and when I thought it might become the prevalent version.
So I did some stat scanning from www.thecounter.com and put this together.
IE6 was released in August 2001 (5 years ago!)
At that point IE5 had 80% of the browser market, IE6 was off the bottom of the scale
By December 2001 IE6 was 19%, IE5 was 68%
By October 2002 they were roughly equal - IE6-45%, IE5-46%
In November 2002 IE6 finally overtook IE5
It took until December 2004 (2 more years!) for IE5 to become less than 10%
However, I’m guessing things will go somewhat faster this time due to more folk being clued up and automatic updates…
…but then there are more ‘lusers’ around too… 
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It’s certainly going to be an interesting time not only just for the designers of websites but also the users too…
Isn’t it true that once IE7 comes out all the kludges and fixes for CSS issues between Firefox/IE6 will be thrown up in the air again?
And poor users won’t know whether to upgrade and risk their sites not working or been left behind in the browser stakes.
Almost wants you to shrug your shoulders and just install Opera
Neil
That kinda true Donkey, but its more the IE CSS hacks that will be the issue in IE7.
This IE upgrade should be better due to the Auto Update feature that most people are now using thanks to all the security issues in XP
The more worrying thing is the fact that Win2k is not going to get a version of IE7 which is just stupid cos how many offices do you know of that dont use Win2k for there machines?
Anyway get back to work Donkey boy, the Dealer sites broke again (blame tim)
hacks are bad, mmm’kay?
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