[kellros]

It must be IE gathering its numbers to face off against Spartan in the IEpocalypse.

Another theory is that corporates/governments are switching over from XP to Windows 7 (with Internet Explorer 8 as default) because XP was declared "dead" (end of life on April 8, 2014 - no more security updates) and the existing PCs aren't capable of running UEFI required for Windows 8...

Windows 7 and Windows 8 is going to get a free upgrade to Windows 10; it's not far fetched to believe some people are installing a fresh copy of Windows 7 on a clean machine to make use of the free upgrade.

[brudgers]

Windows 8 will run on anything that ran Vista and does not require UEFI. Placing a sticker proclaiming Windows 8 certification or something like that on a new computer requires UEFI.

[kellros]

Good to know :)