What's New On These Pages: January 2007

Monday 8th January
After reading an article like this one (complete with some rather bad grammar), it reminded me that IE 7 is now being heavily pushed via Windows Update to all Windows users. This, in turn, meant it was time to look at the browser perecentage splits, which I last did a couple of months ago. Here's the latest figures:
```
Browser     Hits last month   %age
Win IE 6.0     1513716       51.01%
Win IE 7.0      928838       31.30%
Firefox         345870       11.65%
Safari           50437        1.70%
Others          128909        4.34%
===================================
Total          2967770      100.00%
```
As I suspected last November, the Windows Update push has gained IE 7 a massive 25% extra market share in only two months, now making it almost 3 times as popular as Firefox. It's looking like it will overtake IE 6 next month and exceed 50% total market share the following month, at which point Web developers need to install it as their primary browser (rather than as their secondary browser as it currently probably is).

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