Microsoft Says IE9 Beta Demand Overwhelming

cgriffin21 writes "Microsoft expected Internet Explorer 9 to be popular, but after more than two million people downloaded the IE9 beta in the first two days after its release, the software giant is having a hard time choosing which eye-popping statistics to cite. Microsoft says its "Beauty of the Web" site, which illustrates the aesthetic advantages of IE9's support for HTML5 and hardware acceleration, has had more the 9 million visits and 26 million page views since the IE9 beta launch on Sept. 15. Microsoft's developer-oriented IE Test Drive Site has had 4 million page views during the same period."

Comments

I can only assume

[somersault]

That this is being pushed by automatic updates then? And that you are given the option to view the "Beauty of the Web" site on first run or something?

Just like Silverlight is for some reason an option and selected by default when you try to install Windows Messenger.

And with DX11 coming to Linux

[Rogerborg]

I can't wait to run IE9 in WINE just to taunt XP holdouts. Why? 4 TEH LULZ!!1!