Speaking
of open-source software, I recall posting a while back when
the percentage of visits to Corpus Callosum, by users of Internet
Explorer, dropped below 50%.
Now, it is 24%. Roughly parallels President Bush's approval
rating. I wonder what those two stats would look like on a
graph over time.
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Interesting. I just looked at the stats for my own blog and see the IE usage has been dropping steadily throughout this year. In January it was 31%. This month it is running just 23%. Over the last week, it is only 11%.
I sort of wonder if people installed IE7, decided they did not like it, found out it wa a pain in the neck to revert to IE6, so decided to try Firefox. As long as you have to go through the trouble to learn a new interface, you may as well switch to the better product.