Microsoft turns to pirated Windows users to boost IE7 market share

Sunday, October 7th, 2007

Microsoft is, for the first time, making Internet Explorer 7 available to users of pirated copies of XP. One thing’s been obvious since the release of IE7 — its uptake hasn’t been as good as Microsoft would have hoped, regardless of the spin the company has put on things.

IE6 is still the dominant browser on the Windows platform, and IE overall continues to lose market share to Firefox.
In the last month, for example, APCMag.com only registered 50.38% Internet Explorer usage. Firefox accounted for 39.9% of users, Safari 5% and Opera 4%. Of the Internet Explorer users, nearly half — 45.61% are still using IE6. Microsoft turns to pirated Windows users to boost IE7 market share | APC Magazine