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Re:When IE gave us beautiful, fast touch interactions, and n... by stupidcar on Friday March 13, 2015 @03:37PM (#9199477)
Depends where you get your stats. According to Net Market Share, IE is still the majority desktop browser, with just under 60% usage: http://www.netmarketshare.com/
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Re:When IE gave us beautiful, fast touch interactions, and n... by integraton on Friday March 13, 2015 @04:15PM (#9199722)
> Depends where you get your stats

It's usually advisable for people get them from analytics tools on their own sites rather than looking at global stats. For example, IE stats from my Google Analytics account covering multiple different industries, company sizes, and types of sites and applications range from 6.78% to 13.19%, and I've seen similar numbers on every project I've worked on for at least 4 or 5 years.

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Re:When IE gave us beautiful, fast touch interactions, and n... by tacos on Friday March 13, 2015 @11:58PM (#9201499)
This is called confirmation bias. There are plenty of markets where IE retains > 80%. Many of us have chosen to avoid those markets, but they're out there.
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Re:When IE gave us beautiful, fast touch interactions, and n... by chaz72 on Friday March 13, 2015 @03:57PM (#9199607)
It's about 99% of "people who have no idea how to install a new browser", so that kind of skews those numbers.
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Re:When IE gave us beautiful, fast touch interactions, and n... by delecti on Friday March 13, 2015 @04:29PM (#9199825)
It certainly skews the cause of those numbers, but not the end result, which is that a huge number of people still use IE.
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