Nevertheless, Internet Explorer is still responsible for 43% of the visits to in the past month. As you’d expect, there is a high percentage of Firefox users (48%) in the site’s audience, reflecting the number of web developers that use it as their primary browser.

How successful has this been? Well, let’s look at the browser stats for. For web developers, this would get more users onto the more standards-compliant IE 7 rendering engine. For Microsoft, this would help get more people onto the more secure IE 7 platform in a hurry. When Microsoft first released IE 7 one year ago next week, they made it a “forced” update for Windows XP, in the hopes that this would help get more people onto the new browser. Although the announcement stops just shy of saying it, the real effect of this move is to allow people running pirated versions of Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 to get the IE7 upgrade. The Microsoft Internet Explorer Weblog has announced that the latest update to Internet Explorer 7 will drop the Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) validation step from the installer.

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