Barney Carroll wrote: > Chris Ovenden wrote: >> I have to disagree. According to the BBC >> (http://www.bbc.co.uk/guidelines/newmedia/technical/browser_support.shtml), >> only 23% of their visitors have XP SP2 installed (ie only about a >> third of XP users). Even if we assume all those people accept the IE7 >> upgrade (and it's likely most will), it will remain a minority browser >> for many years, if not forever. (I am skeptical about Vista ever being >> widespread, which would be the main factor in further adoption, and >> still contingent upon an as-yet undetected slowdown in Firefox use.) > > I have to agree with this. There was a silent consensus of panic where I > work when I found that Microsoft were about to make IE7 a 'recommended > download'... Luckily IE7 is very well behaved over-all and I only had to > spend a couple of ours updating all our websites for it. > > However, the assertion that Microsoft's announcement meant that everyone > will soon be using IE7 was not a reasonable one. As well as the factors > Chris points to, we have to consider the notion of people looking to > Vista PCs as alternatives to Macs - which in the popular eye are the new PC.
Another thing to think about re upgrades from IE6 to IE7. I've worked in large corporate environments the past 15 years. NONE of them use Windows update to update their PCs. They have techs and analysts who test any proposed update from MS - primarily to make sure that the update doesn't break anything of corporate importance. I think this means that the uptake of IE7 will be much slower than MS thinks. For an indication about corporate uptake of updates - the last corporate place I worked, a very large medical care system, was just now getting around to rolling out Windows XP. Windows 2000 was still their de facto standard ... -- David [EMAIL PROTECTED] authenticity, honesty, community ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7 information -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
