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November 30, 2007
Deployment speed
Deployment speed: Large downloads and interface changes slow clientside adoption. IE Team: "It's been a little over a year since we released IE7 on Windows XP and for Windows Vista, so I thought it would be worthwhile to talk about where we are after the year. According to internal Microsoft research based on data from Visual Sciences Corporation, there are over 300 million users are experiencing the web with IE7. This makes IE7 the second most popular browser after IE6." That's a little more optimistic than other surveys, but even extremely optimistically, that's admittedly less than half the audience updated in a year. Meanwhile: "Historically, new releases took 12 months to reach 80% -- but with Flash Player 8 and Flash Player 9, it now takes 9 months to reach 80% and 12 months to reach 90%." Bottom line: when running code on other people's machines, it always takes awhile to deploy. The future just comes faster here.
Posted by JohnDowdell at November 30, 2007 11:20 PM