Scott Morgan

Well that didn’t take long, Adobe posted the latest Flash Player penetration rates and 84% of users in the US and Canada are now equipped with Flash Player 9. In the past it usually took 2 years to reach 80% penetration, it only took 10 months for Flash Player 9. Amazing.This is the first time we will actually be able to publish something with the latest version of the Flash IDE and be confident that most people will be able to see our “stuff”.

Great work Adobe, and take that Microsoft.

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Adobe just released the latest Flash Player penetration rates. Nothing yet on Flash 9 but Flash 8 has broke the 80% mark in all markets. It probably won’t go much higher from here since the only player you can download now is 9. And since sites like MySpace are forcing users to download Flash 9 I’m sure the penetration rates will rise very quickly. http://www.adobe.com/products/player_census/flashplayer/version_penetration.html

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Adobe has just released the stats for Flash Player 8 penetration as of April 2006. Flash player 8 is now installed on 69.3% of computers in the United States, 79% in Canada (YAY CANADA!!), and 76.1% in Europe. Adobe still claims that player penetration rates will be at 80% by June in the US. This is very impressive considering the player was only officially released in September of 2005. In the past it took usually 2 years to get the penetration rates up to 80%. A combination of the available Flash Player auto-update and the player update notifications built in to the Operating Systems are the key reasons the penetration rates are increasing so quickly.

http://www.adobe.com/products/player_census/flashplayer/version_penetration.html

Tags: Flash, penetration, player