Olympics, DNC a boon for Silverlight
UPDATE: Looks like some clever Silverlight bloggers were skewing the numbers, see my new post here: http://www.bluerosegames.com/SilverlightBrassTacks/post/Remember-what-I-said-about-statistics.aspx
These stats are from http://riastats.com and you know what they say, there are lies, damn lies, and statistics. If you know of other benchmark sites that track the install base for Silverlight, I'd love to hear about them, please post in the comments.
According to riastats.com, before the Olympics the percentage of users without Silverlight installed was right around 90%, with less that 1% having Silverlight 2 installed. Jump forward to today's numbers. Only 48% without Silverlight installed at all, 34% have Silverlight 2 installed, and 17% have Silverlight 1.
If these numbers are even close to accurate, this is a huge gain for Silverlight and a great foot in the door for the technology.