Wat? Why is the IE6 growing!?

[Bateluer]

http://arstechnica.com/business/new...t-explorer-6-share-grows-and-chrome-falls.ars

The ancient browser is now used by 8.38 percent of Internet users, up from last month's 7.66 percent.

The humanity!

 

[yllus]

China and the Third World mostly use pirated Windows XP machines, which come with IE 6 installed by default (and with no easy way to do security updates, AFAIK).

 

[Lanyap]

I just read that MS is going to force install IE8 on XP and IE9 on Vista and 7.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Also depends how they gather these stats. Maybe not every single user is being accounted for, so every time they run a report there may be more/less/different users part of the test group. I'm guessing they're just looking at user/agent data, which can be spoofed.

You can spoof your user agent as IE 6.0 to get the old Google image view, for example, so there's reasons why people could do it.

 

[FoBoT]

China and the Third World mostly use pirated Windows XP machines, which come with IE 6 installed by default.

yeah pirated XP with IE 6

 

[Skitzer]

I just read that MS is going to force install IE8 on XP and IE9 on Vista and 7.

Let them ... I use FF

 

[Red Squirrel]

I just read that MS is going to force install IE8 on XP and IE9 on Vista and 7.

lol that's going to break so many companies. Corporate software is the most poorly written software out there, and is the reason lot of companies are taking so long to switch over. The company I work for outsources everything to this other company, which adds even more complication. We're on XP with IE6 and probably will be forever.

 

[FoBoT]

lol that's going to break so many companies. Corporate software is the most poorly written software out there, and is the reason lot of companies are taking so long to switch over.

this
we blocked IE 7 for years, now we block IE 8

 

[RavenSEAL]

Chrome is better than all.

 

[gevorg]

http://arstechnica.com/business/new...t-explorer-6-share-grows-and-chrome-falls.ars

The humanity!

IE6 is not growing at all by this graph, between 10/11 and 1/12 there are just very small fluctuations which can be caused by the number of users online, or the margin of error by whatever measures that statistic. The overall trend during the whole period seems pretty downward, including IE7 and IE8.

 

[Merad]

lol that's going to break so many companies. Corporate software is the most poorly written software out there, and is the reason lot of companies are taking so long to switch over. The company I work for outsources everything to this other company, which adds even more complication. We're on XP with IE6 and probably will be forever.

This, definitely. My employer just started migrating to IE7 last fall, and had huge complications. It's been kinda hilarious to watch.

 

[Maximilian]

Since its a percentage the percentage could grow whilst the numbers stay the same or even drop.

I attribute it to a drop in overall IE use at the hands of chrome/firefox/anyotherbrowser.

 

[bearxor]

I have a XP x64 VM with IE6 installed on it I use occasionally with no desire to install a different browser whatsoever...

 

[Anubis]

companies locking out every other browser from being installed or run might have something to do with it


happened where i work about 8 months ago. IE6 is all we can use

 

[Shawn]

I just read that MS is going to force install IE8 on XP and IE9 on Vista and 7.

I hope not... I just upgraded a blind lady's PC from IE7 to IE8 and it completely broke her text to speech software. Luckily I was able to uninstall IE8 and roll back to 7 otherwise I would have had to reinstall windows. A new version of the software is available which is compatible but it costs $900 and she can't afford to upgrade every year.

 

[Puddle Jumper]

I'm glad we support IE8 and FF 9.0 for all of our internal apps. I don't see how anyone can be productive with IE6.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I'm glad we support IE8 and FF 9.0 for all of our internal apps. I don't see how anyone can be productive with IE6.

Yeah it's terrible to use. Thankfully most of us have admin rights so we just install Firefox for all the stuff that does work in it. In fact I even installed IEtab extension and run all the IE stuff in Firefox that way I still get tabs. I can't believe it took Microsoft 7 versions before they finally decided to do tabs. They should of had it a long time ago.

 

[bruceb]

I have IE8 on my desktop with XP PRO SP3 ... it won't support IE9 .. also have latest Firefox (primary browser) and latest Opera installed. Only use IE for sites that absolutely insist on it (for me they are few)

 

[ShawnD1]

lol that's going to break so many companies. Corporate software is the most poorly written software out there, and is the reason lot of companies are taking so long to switch over. The company I work for outsources everything to this other company, which adds even more complication. We're on XP with IE6 and probably will be forever.

I think they intentionally hire the worst programmers in the entire world. There's no other explanation. ANYTHING on office intranet only works in IE. Outside of the office, damn near everything works with every browser. I go to my online banking, and I can use any browser. This forum, any browser. Credit card company website, any browser.

 

[T_Yamamoto]

i use firefox.

screw microsoft.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I think they intentionally hire the worst programmers in the entire world. There's no other explanation. ANYTHING on office intranet only works in IE. Outside of the office, damn near everything works with every browser. I go to my online banking, and I can use any browser. This forum, any browser. Credit card company website, any browser.

Yeah I don't get it. At work we always laugh, because the cost of simple changes is ABSURD. Even I could make some of the software at work better and I'm not a professional programmer by any means. Some of it is trivial. But no, nobody is allowed to code, it has to go to this company. Adding a new menu or something will cost them millions of dollars and it wont even work properly. lol

 

[Fritzo]

Google was forced to stop falsely promoting Chrome in search results. That and MS forcing down updated browser versions caused the spike.