Microsoft predicts swift adoption of IE7

[DavyBUK]

As part of his keynote at The Ajax Experience in Boston earlier this week, Chris Wilson, Lead Platform Architect for the IE team (and a WaSP Microsoft Task Force member), revealed that Internet Explorer 7 was downloaded about 3 million times within the first four days of its release. He also offered that, according to Microsoft’s own numbers, 90% of the Windows web share is running [Windows] XP, which goes a long way toward relieving concerns that Microsoft’s plan to only offer IE7 to users of Windows XP and beyond will slow its adoption and never free us from the problematic world of IE6 support:


http://www.webstandards.org/2006/10/...option-of-ie7/

[boca]

I think a lot of that is wishful thinking. In many countries there are lots of older win95/98 systems still running. Yes hard to believe but it's true. These are not big customers of Microsoft, but many *are* potential users and beneficiaries of idn domains. And so I expect the IDN tidal wave should have some very long legs indeed (I guess waves don't really have legs, but you know)

Their 90% number would suggest very good things for IE7 adoption rates if it were true.