Re:Microsoft decides to automatically update Internet Explor...
by mbell on Thursday December 15, 2011 @12:32PM
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Keep in mind where browser usage statistics come from, in this case, NetApplications. If your not visiting some chosen list of sites you are not counted. Thus IE6 installs used mostly internally or stats from sites that don't really support IE 6 won't end up getting counted properly.
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Re:Microsoft decides to automatically update Internet Explor...
by tikhonj on Thursday December 15, 2011 @05:24PM
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On the other hand, if you're developing a website for the general public, you probably don't care much about people who only use IE6 for internal sites either.
If you rarely or never go on the actual internet, the fact that you're using an old browser doesn't matter any more than if you're using an old native program to do the same things.
Of course, there is still the issue of people who do go on the internet but don't visit any of the sites that actually track these statistics; however, I don't know how much of an issue this is because I don't know which sites do the tracking.
Re:Microsoft decides to automatically update Internet Explor...
by mbell on Friday December 16, 2011 @01:15AM
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Agreed however recall the comment I was replaying to, specifically this:
>IE 6 holds a 1% market share in the US. How many corporations in the US are mandating IE 6 if it's only got a 1% market share?
While the points you've made are valid they are irreverent to the discussion at hand.