Woohoo! Its really nice to see that Microsoft finally included IE7 in automatic updates for Windows XP. And the best part is that most of the windows users choose express install when installing updates, meaning that they don’t check what they are installing.

Cool isn’t it? If you would do the same you would run the express install and after rebooting your PC you would be like “WTF? What happened to my Internet explorer?…it changed!”

This is a good thing, mostly for web designers. IE6 doesn’t respect web standards, and in most cases websites have a different style sheet for ie6. which means extra work. IE6’s era has come to an end,all you IE6 fans: its time to just let go and switch to IE7.

According to www.w3scools.com firefox is more popular than ie6, beating it with 5.2%, and having a total of 37.2%. If we combine IE5, IE6, IE7 usage percentages we get that the Internet Explorer versions are still dominating with a total of 54.7% this meaning that more than half of the population uses it.

Internet Explorer 8 is on the way and it seems that it will be quite a big hit, but remember that Firefox 3 is  coming out in the next 3 months, and i don’t think that IE8 will stand a chance!