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On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 12:04 AM, Simon Waters wrote: > The IE7 increase makes no sense. How would you get to IE7 in the last 2 > weeks? It only runs on platforms where Microsoft are pushing IE8 (or > something else). So suggest my stats are biased in some way (very > possible), or that is within the noise level (seems unlikely). Could it be that if you buy a new PC with XP/Vista installed you may still get IE6 or 7 pre-installed? Or corporate environments where IE6 has been replaced by IE7 instead of IE8? (Because the latter might not work with local software?) > Assuming users pick randomly between the big 5 (okay that is an unlikely > approximation), I'd expect this to boost every thing but IE8. With a > much bigger boost for Safari, Opera and Chrome because 20% (1 in 5) is > much larger than their current share, where as Firefox at nearly 20% > wouldn't expect to show much gain. Opera says its downloads have tripled: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9165458/Opera_downloads_triple_after_browser_ballot_screen_debut?taxonomyId=13 Martijn. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html