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It is noteworthy that it has taken 19 months since the initial general availability of IE7 (public release October 2006) to reach 52.5% proliferation amongst users that navigate the Internet with Microsoft’s Web browser. Meanwhile, 92.2% of Firefox users have migrated to FF2.

Regarding my earlier post on IE’s XSS filter.

The point deserves to be repeated: Security improvements, while positive in their own right, are largely meaningless unless they are deployed. The situation with online security today is identical to that of the various dangerous and widespread childhood diseases prior to mandatory vaccinations.

We need herd immunity for the browser populace.

Nothing less will do.