Early Enthusiasm for IE9 from Business Customers; IE9 Momentum on Windows 7 Continues

There’s been a lot of interesting discussion regarding browsers and  business customers over the last month or so.  One trend that is becoming increasing clear is that despite its recent release, IE9 is on its way to quickly become the browser of choice for business.  Recent data from Net Applications shows IE9 browser share jumping to 3.5% in just three months in commercial accounts.  Giving the longer deployment cycles indicative of these enterprises, that jump is impressive.   It is a good leading indicator of the value companies are seeing in moving to Internet Explorer 9 with Windows 7.  Case in point, Siemens came out this week discussing the value of IE9 with Windows 7.  Siemens deployed IE9 to 2,100 desktops as part of a pilot program and shared their  excited about the new IE9 UI and how it integrates seamlessly with Windows 7.  We also saw a report from Forrester Consulting this month on the cost benefits of deploying IE9.  Forrester’s Total Economic Impact study quantified these benefits by looking across six companies involved in piloting IE9.  The results, a composite organization of 50,000 desktops based on these companies could expect to save over $3.3 million from migrating to IE9 based upon IE9’s superior malware protection capabilities among other things.  With its performance, tight integration with Windows 7, security features, and well-established deployment and management tools, IE9 is quickly becoming the best browser for business.



Source:  Net Applications, June 2011

IE9 Momentum on Windows.  In addition to business momentum, Internet Explorer 9 continues its good momentum on Windows 7 in July.  IE9 has now reached almost 25% share on Windows 7 in the US in July.  Worldwide, IE9 usage share on Windows 7 is now over 18% for July, leading the pack among the recent browser releases.





Source:  Net Applications, July 2011 (latest mainline browsers compared).

In Business, as IE9 moves in, it’s clear IE6 is on its way out.  Two recently released independent data reports:  Forrester’s Corporate Desktop Operating System and Browser Report and commercial browser data made available from Net Applications both show that IE6 continues its healthy drop in business accounts.  This is fantastic.  Worldwide, IE6 had its biggest drop in over six months and hit a new milestone by dropping below 10% share.  Within enterprises, the drop of IE6 has been even more dramatic.  Both Forrester and Net Applications show that IE6 dropped 12 points in the last year, and IE6 now only accounts for 4-5% usage share in business accounts.  With end of life for IE6 and Windows XP rapidly approaching, we expect this drop in share to continue.  It’s great to see that the move of businesses off Windows XP and IE6 is helping to drive a worldwide drop in IE6 share.



Sources:  Corporate Desktop Operating System and Browser, Forrester, June 2011; Net Applications, June 2011

There are a number of workshops, remediation options, and virtualization tools available to our commercial customers to help them migrate from IE6.  We encourage customers to keep moving forward and to please join the ranks of Siemens, Isle of Man, Infosys, Dubai World, and others in deploying modern browsers.  The good news is that the investments customers have made to move to Internet Explorer 8 have and will continue to carry over to IE8 because of IE9’s backwards compatibility features.

If you haven’t already made the move to Internet Explorer 9 on Windows 7, try it by visiting www.beautyoftheweb.com.

Roger Capriotti
Director, Internet Explorer Marketing


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