Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 18th Jan 2007 15:49 UTC, submitted by Andy Harmony
Although Microsoft recently touted the 100 millionth installation of Internet Explorer 7, Web measurement firms said that the new browser is simply being swapped out for older editions and hasn't had an impact on Firefox's continued climb. "[As of] January 8th, we had the 100 millionth IE7 installation," said Tony Chor, an IE group program manager, in an entry on the team's blog. "Even more important than installations is usage. According to WebSideStory (the company we use to measure browser usage), as of this week, over 25% of all visitors to sites in the U.S. were using IE7, making IE7 the second most used browser after IE6." While Microsoft had the WebSideStory numbers correct, it didn't tell the whole story, says Geoff Johnston, an analyst with the Web metrics company. "[The growth of IE 7] seems to be exclusively at the expense of IE 6," says Johnston. 
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Member since:2005-07-02
The only way I can think that they would have reached 100 million so quickly would be via "Automatic Updates".
I agree with you. I also believe that MS are not above pumping up this figure in order to make IE7 look more popular that it really is, in order to create a marketing buzz around it.
I personally think it's beyond that. IE may have the power of the automatic update at its disposal, but Firefox has the popular momentum (and more extensions that you'd ever wish for).
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2005-08-08
The only way I can think that they would have reached 100 million so quickly would be via "Automatic Updates".
Same as you, I don't know anyone who is actually using IE7, yet.
Most likely, it's getting updated and being counted as such, but people are sticking with their current Firefox,Mozilla,Opera,etc. browser.