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0 pointsdrivebyacct213y ago0 comments

And what's IE10s market percentage? Less than a fraction of a fraction of a percent I bet. And with current reviews of Win8, I don't see that changing in a meaningful way for soooome time.

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melling13y ago

I think you missed the announcement where Microsoft is going to do a silent update of IE10 to consumer PC's. IE9 usage will drop to the low single digits within a year and IE10 will take its place as the leading IE browser.

damncabbage13y ago

How's this going to work for corporate installs? As much as I love the idea of big companies being forced forward, I have the nagging feeling that Microsoft will include a get-out-of-jail-free card for them.

(Speaking as a medium-sized corporation user stuck on Snow Leopard. :] )

jonstuebe13y ago

The "force" upgrade everyone is talking about is an optional thing. You will be able to go into the settings and turn that off (specifically for corporate use).

wycats13y ago

IE9 doesn't run on Windows XP. IE10 won't run on Windows Vista. So it's safe to say that even with silent updates (which still won't automatically run on corporate machines with corporate IT policies that control the updates), IE8 and IE9 usage won't rapidly drop into low single digits.

melling13y ago

IE8 will probably be more persistent than IE9. I think a lot of corporations are still on XP. Mine is, for example. When companies finally make the jump to Win7, I think they'll move pretty quickly to IE10, so as not to be too far behind. After all, we should expect IE11 next year.

mitchty13y ago

As a note, at my company last year the xp images JUST got IE7. And last week, as the first group of people, our group got upgraded to Win 7+IE8. Major corporations are slooooow at updates.

I'm just happy its happening at all, I know people at banks that have IE6 still.

dasil00313y ago

What about IE8? That's still well above 10% I think.

melling13y ago

Depending on where you look, it's at about 14%.

http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser_version-ww-daily-20120820...

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melling13y ago

damncabbage13y ago

(Speaking as a medium-sized corporation user stuck on Snow Leopard. :] )

jonstuebe13y ago

The "force" upgrade everyone is talking about is an optional thing. You will be able to go into the settings and turn that off (specifically for corporate use).

wycats13y ago

melling13y ago

mitchty13y ago

As a note, at my company last year the xp images JUST got IE7. And last week, as the first group of people, our group got upgraded to Win 7+IE8. Major corporations are slooooow at updates.

I'm just happy its happening at all, I know people at banks that have IE6 still.

dasil00313y ago

What about IE8? That's still well above 10% I think.

melling13y ago

Depending on where you look, it's at about 14%.

http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser_version-ww-daily-20120820...

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