


Ian Paul, of PCWorld, has this perspective on those numbers: "The beta version of IE9, by comparison, was downloaded 10 million times in its first six weeks of availability, but only one million times in its first 24 hours," he wrote. ( is a joint venture of Microsoft and NBC Universal.)

2.3 million downloads in 24 hours is over double the 1 million downloads we saw of the IE9 Beta," wrote Microsoft's Ryan Gavin on the company's IE blog. "We want to thank everyone around the world for downloading IE9 and the enthusiastic reception. The newest version of Microsoft's Internet Explorer Web browser, IE9, tallied 2.3 million downloads in its first day of release Monday, the company says.
