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according to aw stats, my site has been visited 4 times this month by someone using internet explorer version 9.9

how this person got an ie 2.9 versions ahead of microsoft's current beta version is unknown.

I understand now. I knew you'd have an exclaimation. It wasn't me, that is for sure. (no time right now)

(edited to add:) I let MS do their own devolopment on their junk, they get paid for, I don't. (I do give them my opinions ;\ )

Whoever this is, I don't think (s)he is using IE at all. Someone's manually editing the user agent string. There are plugins for Firefox that allow that, I think Opera allows it as well, and on systems like Linux there are means of achieving similar effects without even having the browser open while configuring it. The intent of such capabilities in browsers was probably originally to fool websites that do browser detection and refuse to work properly for anyone not using Internet Explorer -- and it's one of the reasons I'm convinced that IE is probably overreported by about five to ten percent of market share in those browser popularity comparisons we keep seeing.

whose ie is so buggy it thinks it's version 9.9?

the other way around, It did work, it managed to at least get to your site. Maybe they're on to something. MS might just want to buy them out for mega$$ (and of course, they're going to share it with you ) LOL sorry Jaqui, it's kool that you caught it, but I do believe Apotheon is right. It is funny though.
(edited to fix (agian) some of the spelling :) 9

The base Mozilla, the very basic, good old Mozilla, will do that (no, it wasn't me) and a whole lot more.

again, not me.

this one is just using a time travel technique to look back into history.