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This is getting more interesting than I thought at the time I wrote the previous post. In february Microsoft did an automatic upgrade on all XP machines where Internet Explorer 6 is replaced by Internet Explorer 7. This would mean, on paper at least, that there will be hardly any Internet Explorer 6 users left. Is this the case? How soon will we see the marketshare of Internet Explorer 6 drop favoring Internet Explore 7?
I have some new data. This is from another counter at http://www.thecounter.com/stats/2008/February/browser.php You cannot compare this data with the data in the previous post, but I will keep this updated, so we will see the shift.

Browser Stats

Fri Feb 1 00:01:02 2008
- Fri Feb 29 23:58:01 2008
  29.0 Days

1. MSIE 7.x		2576469	(40%)
2. MSIE 6.x		2480951	(38%)
3. FireFox		1071841	(16%)
4. Safari		217663	(3%)
5. Unknown		55455	(1%)
6. Opera x.x		53957	(1%)
7. MSIE 5.x		24445	(0%)
8. Netscape comp.		16015	(0%)
9. Netscape 5.x		8771	(0%)
10. Netscape 7.x		7185	(0%)
11. Netscape 4.x		3641	(0%)
12. MSIE 4.x		2637	(0%)
13. Konqueror		1693	(0%)
14. Netscape 6.x		78	(0%)
15. MSIE 3.x		28	(0%)
16. Netscape 3.x		15	(0%)
17. Netscape 2.x		7	(0%)

Other data from this site reveal that 94% of all users have a decent version of JavaScript installed:

JavaScript Stats
Fri Feb 1 00:01:02 2008 - Fri Feb 29 23:58:01 2008 29.0 Days

Javascript 1.2+: 6174899 (94%)
Javascript <1.2: 10916 (0%)
Javascript false: 335034 (5%)

Java shows similar quotes (93%).

According to http://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php this is the february 2008 quote for world wide browser useage:

W3counter is not an official organsation, although the name suggests it is. Their way of measuring is interesting also. Perhaps I'll write a post once why they are wrong. Statistics are a lovely topic to pick on.
I write this now to compare how this changes in half a year or so. If you are interested, do try to predict in the comments.