Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 Downloaded 6 Million Times!
Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 Beta was released last month and in less than a month it has been downloaded 6 million times! This is two and half times what was seen with IE8 Beta in a similar time frame according to Ryan Gavin. Mr. Gavin goes on to say that several sites are seeing a spike in IE9 browser usage, so I headed to Google Analytics and took a look at the past weeks stats here on Legit Reviews. IE9 Beta makes up for 5% of the IE Browser share here at the site, but Internet Explorer was only used by 28% of the visitors here on Legit Reviews. Yes, that boils down to a rather small number of of readers, so it is shocking that some sites are saying IE9 is used by 25% of their readers when our stats show less than 1% are running in!
Net Applications browser usage share report released today shows IE9 Beta usage share at 0.25% for the two weeks after launch. The tech enthusiast community is observing a notable increase in IE9 activity: LiveSide reported IE9 Beta users accounted for 25% of their reader base, IE9 overtook IE6 users at DownloadSquad, and Network World reported poll results showing 47% of people intend to try IE9 Beta. Additionally, we saw tweets from the likes of Ed Bott who noticed, Halfway through Day 1 of IE9 availability, 8% of my ZDNet visitors are using the beta. Steady increase all day, higher than IE7.
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