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(Unverified)May 14th 2010 6:18AM

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Hang on a sec... did someone say 60%. Where are they pulling this figure from? We operate high-end e-commerce booking engines and track thousands of new visitors a week who spend large amounts of money with us. They are mostly home vistiors but also incude corporate visitors. For May 2010 so far, Silverlight installation and activation is sitting on 32%. I think this 60% is a marketing ploy or they are only using stats from websites which developers frequent (eg their own website). I am a .NET developer so not knocking Microsoft. Just wish they would be realistic with their stats and explain their sources.

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(Unverified)May 14th 2010 6:50AM

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Thanks for the info.

As with most marketing things... we'll probably never know what the real figure is -- it's not like the real figure is easily divinable anyway :)

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(Unverified)May 17th 2010 6:53PM

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Well this is a little embarrasing.... I was viewing an incorrect statistics figure and the install rate is actually 83.5% of all users that hit our sites. Wow. Spoke too soon above. Though 92% are sitting with Silverlight 3 for now. Looks like Silverlight is back on the possible technology list.

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