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
