Silverlight plugin install base with version breakdown

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I would like to choose which versions of Silverlight plugin to target, but can't find any recent statistics on the install base, let alone the version break down. Statowl.com/silverlight.php isn't returning any data and riastats.com is down. Some articles are referencing a 76% web clients installation base around 2012 with high Silverlight version 4 usage, but that's pretty outdated information. Does anyone have up to date information for the Silverlight plugin install base, preferably with version breakdown?

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The client is backwards compatible. I think you will find most users are running the V5 client as that is pushed out with MS updates and was released 2+ years ago. You can set the min runtime version on the html Silverlight plugin element to alert users running an older version to upgrade to a version compatible with the version your app is compiled against.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc917842(v=vs.95).aspx