After 100M IE7 Downloads, Firefox Still Gaining 425
Kelson writes "Internet Explorer 7 hit the 100 million download mark last week. Yet in the three months it's been available, Firefox's market share has continued to grow. InformationWeek reports that nearly all of IE7's growth has been upgrades from IE6. People don't seem to be switching back to IE in significant numbers, prompting analysts to wonder: has Microsoft finally met its match?"
Re:If you're like me (Score:5, Informative)
IE7 on Linux: get it while it's hot (Score:5, Informative)
At least one of those downloads was by my humble self and now graces my humble Ubuntu desktop, thanks to the excellent IEs 4 Linux [tatanka.com.br] package.
(Disclaimer: I do web dev work and need it for testing purposes. And I feel all dirty and sordid with every time I fire it up).
Indeed I do (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Well being that it is part of windows upgrade.. (Score:4, Informative)
Also, IE7 is (at the moment, fix upcoming in SAPGui release 20 IIRC) incompatible with SAP software, so any admin worth his salt will block this update if the company also uses SAP software (which I bet are quite a lot of desktops). And this problem is AFAIK a blunder by SAP, saying things like "uh, nobody gave us IE7 early enough, how were we supposed to fix our code".
Re:A fair test? (Score:2, Informative)
Two reasons (Score:3, Informative)
2) Your admin installed the IE7 Blocker Toolkit for corporate administrators ( http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=65788&site
We warned our customers' admins about this back in August but they ignored us... until October 18th. Then they started submitting Prio-1 tickets, the fuckwits.
Re:How well would FF do if *it* forced itself out? (Score:2, Informative)
I would suggest you to use WSUS [microsoft.com] to manage your Windows Updates. If that's too much for you, you can also use the IE 7 Blocker Toolkit [microsoft.com].
Administrating a windows network requires just as much technical competency as does administrating a linux, solaris, mac or whatever network.
Re:ie tabbed browsing (Score:4, Informative)
While using an antivirus and a spyware program is good (along with a firewall and so on), you should take into account that antivirus programs offer their security with delays. Between the start of an attack until the moment all the updates are on the system, usually more than a day occurs.
And you should take into account that IE has open holes (Firefox probably has some too) that can be attacked by any totally new virus
Re:Popularity (Score:3, Informative)
Re:A fair test? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:If you're like me (Score:5, Informative)
Thus far this month, we're looking at the following:
MMMDI [musicmademe.com]
1,867,564 hits
64.1% IE / 29.6% FF / 1.9% Safari (the big three)
MvMMDI [moviesmademe.com]
186,191 hits (yes, this site is still relatively new and unestablished)
59.9% IE / 34.5% FF / 2.1% Safari (the big three)
Re:For me.... (Score:3, Informative)
I don't use XP a lot but do maintain a network of them at work. It makes sense though, why notify a user of updates that said user won't be able to install anyway? (for lack of admin rights)
There is a group policy option that allows the update service to display updates to normal users (and elevate privileges for the install). I don't know if the home version of XP includes the group policy editor, but even if it doesn't the option should be able to be enabled via a registry edit.
Active usage stats (Score:3, Informative)
http://www.thecounter.com/stats/2007/January/brow
19% for IE7, 11% for Firefox. End of story.
"But IE is preinstalled, but Automatic Updates, but, but."
Yea, we know. And? Firefox doesn't need skewed stats, nor it needs lame excuses. All of you, grow up
Re:Both IE *AND* Firefox upgrade automatically (Score:3, Informative)
firefox does push point updates though, as does IE.
Re:For me.... (Score:2, Informative)
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/upda
Re:For me.... (Score:2, Informative)