IE 9 - Most Popular Modern Browser on Windows 7 in the US, 22% Usage Share

June was another good month for Internet Explorer 9 and Windows 7.  IE9 has now become the most popular modern browser on Windows 7 in the US.  IE9 is now just second overall in the US behind IE8 with 21.8% usage share as of the last day of June.  Worldwide, IE9 usage share on Windows 7 is exiting the month with 17.0% usage share for June.

Better, together.  We designed IE9 to make your favorite sites better.  A key piece of that is getting sites out of the browser box and letting them integrate right into your Windows 7 taskbar just like any of your favorite apps.   WordPress, which has over 20 million sites, recently took advantage of some of these unique capabilities to enable any of these millions of sites to be pinned right to your Windows 7 taskbar and instantly have a Jump List for all recent posts.  One of the blogs that caught our eye was Crazy4ComicCon, an enthusiastic ode to Comic-Con maintained by Tony Kim.

Pinning C4CC to your Windows 7 taskbar gives you instant access to the site, and a right-click will bring up the five most recent posts.

    

 

As you can see Tony is incredibly passionate about comic books, Comic-Con, his blog and ?the tribe.?  He launched his blog about a year ago as a means to ?make the world a little smaller.? If you?re a fan of comics and want to learn more about the ins-and-outs of Comic-Con, definitely check-out Tony?s blog by pinning it to your Windows 7 taskbar.   And if you are a reader any of any of the 20 million blogs or news sites from WordPress, like TechCrunch ? start pinning!

Go Scandinavia! The positive momentum in moving the world to a modern browser continues this month with IE6 and IE7 dropping a combined 0.8% share worldwide for the month of June.  Our website ie6countdown.com continues to get great traffic, and this month we launched our Champions page to celebrate those major countries that have dropped below 1% usage share of IE6.  The most recent country to join the ranks of these Champions is Sweden, where the Stockholm Webmonkeys got together on June 21^st and celebrated IE6 dropping below 1% in Sweden.

                       

We also have expanded our IE6 Countdown efforts with two more global sites going live this month.  China which represents the largest portion of IE6 share worldwide has launched a local site, and our team in Latin America has also released a local version of IE6 Countdown to help get people there to move to a modern browser.

If you haven?t already made the move to Internet Explorer 9, try it by visiting www.beautyoftheweb.com.

Roger Capriotti
Director, Internet Explorer Product Marketing

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