{"id":2025,"date":"2013-05-03T10:00:02","date_gmt":"2013-05-03T14:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.nccomputertech.com\/?p=2025"},"modified":"2013-05-03T10:00:02","modified_gmt":"2013-05-03T14:00:02","slug":"internet-explorer-10-usage-doubles-after-microsoft-triggers-auto-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nccomputertech.com\/techtalk\/2013\/05\/03\/internet-explorer-10-usage-doubles-after-microsoft-triggers-auto-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet Explorer 10 usage doubles after Microsoft triggers auto-update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/2036984\/internet-explorer-10-usage-doubles-after-microsoft-triggers-auto-update.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/nccomputertech.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/05\/browsers-100020597-medium.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft&#8217;s Internet Explorer 10 (IE10) doubled its usage share last month, and now accounts for nearly 11 percent of all copies of IE in use, a Web measurement company said today.<br \/>\nIE10, which Microsoft launched last October for Windows 8 and in February for the far-more-popular Windows 7, doubled its usage share within IE from 5.3% to a month-ending 10.8%, data published by Net Applications showed.<br \/>\nThe browser&#8217;s quick rise\u2014as recently as January, it accounted for only 2.3 percent of all copies of Internet Explorer\u2014was triggered by the start of an automatic update from 2011&#8217;s IE9 to this year&#8217;s IE10 on Windows 7 PCs.<br \/>\nIE10 was the first browser released by Microsoft since it changed its upgrade policy in late 2011. Rather than seek user approval before upgrading IE\u2014the previous practice\u2014Microsoft adopted a Google Chrome-like &#8220;silent&#8221; scheme that automatically installs the newest browser suitable for that version of Windows.<br \/>\nIE10 supports only Windows 8 and Windows 7, leaving Windows Vista stuck with IE9, just as Windows XP has been frozen at IE8.<br \/>\nVirtually all of IE10 gains were apparently through the upgrade process\u2014rather than in persuading users of rivals&#8217; browsers to switch\u2014as IE9, the previous standard on Windows 7, dropped to 32.6 percent of all copies of Internet Explorer from 37 percent the month before.<br \/>\nIE9 peaked in February with a 38.8 percent share of all copies of Internet Explorer.<br \/>\nBusinesses can block IE10 from being automatically installed on their machines by deploying a toolkit Microsoft issued two months ago, or by using the standard update management tools, Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) or Systems Management Server (SMS).<br \/>\nIE8 remained flat at 41.4 percent of all copies of Internet Explorer, and if analysts are correct, will remain the most popular version of Microsoft&#8217;s browser (free registration required) because not only is it the most modern available for the stubborn Windows XP, but it has also been adopted as the standard by many enterprises.<br \/>\nNor did Microsoft make any progress last month in killing off IE6, the 2001 browser it&#8217;s been trying to eradicate for years. IE6 was used by 11.1 percent of all those running Internet Explorer, a higher percentage than IE10.<br \/>\nOther browsers, including Mozilla&#8217;s Firefox and Google&#8217;s Chrome, remained flat in Net Applications&#8217; measurements as well, with Firefox ending April with a 20.3 percent usage share and with Chrome accounting for 16.4 percent.<br \/>\nIE&#8217;s overall share also didn&#8217;t change in April: Microsoft&#8217;s various browsers garnered a usage share of 55.8 percent, steady for the first time since September.<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/2036984\/internet-explorer-10-usage-doubles-after-microsoft-triggers-auto-update.html\" target=\"_blank\">Internet Explorer 10 usage doubles after Microsoft triggers auto-update | PCWorld<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft&#8217;s Internet Explorer 10 (IE10) doubled its usage share last month, and now accounts for nearly 11 percent of all 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