IE7 surpasses three million downloads
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27 Oct 2006, Tom Sanders in California , V3
Microsoft has logged over three million downloads for its Internet Explorer 7 browser in the first four days after the application was launched, according to Tony Chor, a Microsoft group program manager.
Users currently have to manually download the applications. On 1 November Microsoft will start distributing the applications to all Windows XP users as a high priority update.
The software developer has yet to release foreign language versions of the application, as well as a version for the forthcoming Windows Vista operating system.
Microsoft launched Internet Explorer 7 last week.
Analyst firm Gartner has applauded the release and projected that it will help Microsoft stop the rise of the open source Firefox browser.
Firefox earlier this week released a version 2 of its software.
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But the real question is...
How many of the "3 million" were generated by automatic Windows updates?? It seems that we should determine the number of users who *explicitly* downloaded it. It says much more about Firefox considering that a user must explicitly request it rather than having the OS do it for them.
Posted by Spencer W., 27 Oct 2006