IE9: 2.35 Million Downloads on Day One
Firefox 4 is coming next Tuesday and it’s already got a heck of a first-day to beat, as Microsoft has announced that Internet Explorer 9 was downloaded more than two million times in the first 24 hours it was available.
Released on Monday at SXSW in Texas, users have been downloading IE9 in droves. Microsoft’s Ryan Gavin today announced that in the 24 hours after it went live, 2.35 million downloaded the browser.
"We want to thank everyone around the world for downloading IE9 and the enthusiastic reception," said Gavin.
"2.3 million downloads in 24 hours is over double the 1 million downloads we saw of the IE9 Beta and four times that of the IE9 RC over the same time period."
For those that are interested, 2.35 million downloads in the first day equates to 27 downloads every second, or over 240 downloads every 9 seconds. Yowza!
You ready, Mozilla?

Don't get me wrong, I really like IE9.
At the moment however, a few web-based services I use here don't work with IE9, so I've uninstalled for the time being.
Ive run Win7 since it came out and haven't even launched IE8. One of the first things I did was delete the icon from the taskbar.
Bingo. I only use IE if it's for a website that just won't work with FF. (Some of the Utilities here have them.)
that's like me, only replace the websites with games/drivers and browsers with operating systems
Call me crazy but somethings fishy is going on with it as well. I ran FF after I decided I didn't want IE anymore and it crashed on the first start, which is the first time in about 3 months that's happened. Hasn't done it since and I haven't used IE since either.
I did download it on all my machines (4), only left one on my main, just in case. What can I say, Firefox is addicting.
After I found that IE9 was faster than Chrome, which used to be my default, I started using it more. I have had to use compatibility mode on a few pages (like Tom's) but so far am loving the thing.
I feel like MS is on a roll here. I have a Samsung Focus running WP7 and love it to death, I have Windows 7 Pro x64 for my Desktop and love it, I have an Xbox 360 and love it, and now I love IE9. Microsoft has done a LOT of things right in the last few years across its entire spectrum of products.
And yes, I have gotten an RROD and have had issues with Win7. That does not outweigh the benefit I have gotten from both products and at the end of the day, that's what matters.
What FF should do is have the ability to launch each window as its own process complete with its own plugin container. It'll eat up more memory but that is getting cheaper by the day and would fix many of the issue's at hand.