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It looks like Microsoft did not proceed with the planned forced upgrade to IE 7 on 12th February as they had previously indicated was scheduled. As yet I have found no explanation for why this didn’t happen. Given that IE 7 is actually a major security patch to IE 6 is ought to have been a “must have” upgrade from day one but for some reason Microsoft do not seem to want to push this anywhere near as much as they ought to be doing.

I have just been comparing the recent browser stats for my site with those from a few months ago and the comparison is quite interesting. The percentage of visitors to my site who use IE 7 has actually fallen from 29% to 26% over the past few months while IE 6 users remains relatively static at 27%. This means that once more there are more IE 6 visitors than IE 7 visitors. It also appears to indicate that people have stopped upgrading from IE 6 to IE 7 and that those who did upgrade to IE 7 have started upgrading again to a better browser than IE. The combined toal for IE visitors is now down to 54% while those using Firefox and Mozilla are now at 41%. Opera and Safari users make up most of the remainder.

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