ryanm wrote:
Actually, with MySpace requiring Flash 9, I would expect the penetration to reach 80%+ within a couple months.
The MySpace surge apparently affected the servers last week (I think MySpace has since throttled back, spread out their update requests), but even so, MySpace has 90 million members, and Flash Player 8 and above have consistently exceeded five million successful installs per day... Flash Player gains more new audience in a month than all MySpace members combined. They may have pushed the adoption curve forward a few weeks.
For the original question, Adobe Flash Player 9 was released to the public at the end of June 2006, and is now available in Windows, Macintosh, and Intel-based Macintosh versions. Player 9 for Linux should arrive towards the end of 2006. For mobile, Adobe Flash Lite 2 is the current version, used in new devices, although most devices already have Flash Lite 1.x baked in.
For authoring, the Flash 8 Professional authoring tool for visual development produces SWF8 files. Adobe Flex 2.0, released in late June, uses the new ActionScript 3 engine in Flash Player 9 for its enhanced logic-processing capabilities. Other tools may produce different versions of SWF files, but the current Adobe Flash Player 9 will play them all (subject to cross-domain security requests, etc).
For statistics, the most recent consumer audit took place in June, before Flash Player 9 was available for the general public, and so they measured up to FP8.
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