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Silverlight 4 Adoption Rate Approaching 25%

A week before Silverlight 4 came out I added some Javascript to the tester page to track what version of Silverlight everyone was running and feed it into Google Analytics.

Silverlight 4 is still very new of course but I think it is interesting how many Regex Hero users have already upgraded. The adoption rate here is much higher than the stats from riastats.com would suggest (which of course spans a large variety of sites).

Here's a screenshot from Google Analytics showing the breakdown of Silverlight versions on regexhero.net/tester/ during the past 2 weeks:
Silverlight 4 Adoption Rate
"Silverlight 0" was my way of saying Silverlight is not installed.

Regex Hero is still built on Silverlight 3. But I'm going to begin working on some major improvements to Regex Hero in the upcoming weeks. Silverlight 4 is going to allow me to add some awesome features that I'm looking forward to. And my plan at the moment is to launch the new Silverlight 4 version when the adoption rate surpasses 80%.

If you want to see the new version of Regex Hero make sure you get the latest version of Silverlight. The sooner everyone upgrades the sooner I can launch. ;)
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