I have been chatting with friends as of late about the penetration of the Flash runtime vs. the .NET runtime.  I had recently seen Flash stats but hadn't seen any .NET stats.  Brad Abrams drops some of them on his blog:

1.      More than 120M copies of the .NET Framework were downloaded and installed (using either Microsoft downloads or Windows Update)

2.      More than 85% of new consumer PCs sold in 2004 had the framework installed. More than 58% of business PC had the .NET Framework preinstalled or preloaded

Those were his top two and can only bode well for those of us shipping .NET applications out in the real world...

Friday, January 14, 2005 8:58:09 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)         Comments [0]