IE7 Release Schedule

[bwhhisc]

Originally Posted by yanni

All the above mentioned are so used in typing without the accent-marks that the I7 won't have much of an effect on them until they slowly change their habits oer time, imho.

I don't think that high of a percentage of people search by typing in the term and extension (word.com)... unless they are going to a specific know website; ie google.com, or yahoo.com etc..

If I am searching for cheap hotels in London...I would search for "Cheap Hotels London" not CheapHotelsLondon.com. "Cheap Hotels London" give me the list of best ranked pages from which I choose the best ones to search throughu.

Accented IDN or plain, if you build a GREAT site, advertise, link, SEO, and maybe even pay for some hits via sponsoring the link you have a good chance to make your site a success.

[Drewbert]

New IE7 Langs released....

Brazil
Italy
Finland
Korea
Arabic
Spain

OH YEAH!

[Drewbert]

All confirmed as non-English downloads.

[thefabfive]

From the Internet Explorer blog:

Don’t be surprised if you see AU distribute new updates for Windows in November, but don’t see IE7. The rate of delivery and when IE7 reaches you will be based on several factors including the release of other higher priority updates and support call volume. You may have IE7 delivered by AU at any time over the next few months.

And it does look like we'll get some automatic updates tomorrow...

For localized versions, we plan to follow this same approach of first releasing to the IE site followed by AU distribution several weeks later. A number of already-released European languages are next to start AU distribution and customers using these languages should be ready by November 15th.

Microsoft IE Blog

[yanni]

Originally Posted by BillW

I don't think that high of a percentage of people search by typing in the term and extension (word.com)... unless they are going to a specific know website; ie google.com, or yahoo.com etc..

If I am searching for cheap hotels in London...I would search for "Cheap Hotels London" not CheapHotelsLondon.com. "Cheap Hotels London" give me the list of best ranked pages from which I choose the best ones to search throughu.

I think that the current traffic that we get to our idns comes via the following ways in order of volume (this is a personal, unresearched opinion):

1) Traffic bleed:
Established sites who advertise the IDN url, even though they only own the ASCII version of the domain. Thus, surfers trying to revisit, they type in the correct idn word and end up on our side.

2) SE traffic

3) Accidental Direct Navigation (my term, Ha TM) Instead of placing their keyword in the google search bar, they place it in the browser's address bar.
Or, people who forgot to switch to English from their language when they're typing in an url in the address bar. (The latter happens to me often)

[HINT: a great opportunity here for "ascii-to-idn equivalent on the local keyboard typos" ]

4) Net savvy folk who know they can find content on idn websites, and "thrill seekers" who take a chance by entering an idn url, usually a single keyword.

Numbers 3 and 4 could be switched.

Again, MHO.

[Fka200]

http://www.microsoft.com/middleeast/...s/default.mspx


arabic ie7 up!

[261275]

Originally Posted by Fka200

http://www.microsoft.com/middleeast/arabic/windows/ie/downloads/default.mspx


arabic ie7 up!

Marhaba

[Fka200]

Originally Posted by 261275

Marhaba

marhabten

[Drewbert]

My guess, from monitoring non-English IE7 useage so far is that Microsoft is sending AU out to "Media Center PC" for all non-English languages, before anything else gets it.

[rhys]

Originally Posted by BillW

I don't think that high of a percentage of people search by typing in the term and extension (word.com)... unless they are going to a specific know website; ie google.com, or yahoo.com etc..

If I am searching for cheap hotels in London...I would search for "Cheap Hotels London" not CheapHotelsLondon.com. "Cheap Hotels London" give me the list of best ranked pages from which I choose the best ones to search throughu.

Accented IDN or plain, if you build a GREAT site, advertise, link, SEO, and maybe even pay for some hits via sponsoring the link you have a good chance to make your site a success.

Actually Bill, apparently 10-15% of all the searches conducted occur in precisely that manner. Type in keyword and add .com. I confess to having done the same before I got into domaining - now I just do it out of curiousity.

I don't disagree with the idea that it is superior to build a great site however....