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I hadn't heard this before. Do you have data to support that claim?

• brazzy 16y ago
  Here's the article I remembered: http://www.troyhunt.com/2010/08/aye-pirates-be-reason-ie6-just-wont-die.html http://www.troyhunt.com/2010/08/aye-pirates-be-reason-ie6-ju... Interestingly, some specific countries (namely the Phillipines and Indonesia) have a much lower IE6 usage than their equally poor neighbours, due to a very high market share of Firefox.
  • kijinbear 16y ago
    Another interesting fact: Both Taiwan (40%) and South Korea (43%) have piracy rates comparable to Singapore (37%), but 5-6 times more IE6 users (32-38% vs 6%). The correlation is not particularly strong there. Other factors might be at play. In South Korea, for example, all payment gateways and government portals are required by law to have certain "security features", which can only be implemented as an ActiveX control. (Good luck with security!) That explains the 94%+ IE adoption rate. Also, all those ActiveX controls break every time a new version of IE comes out, so users are understandably reluctant to move away from IE6. In fact, I've heard rumors that the only reason IE8 still supports ActiveX is that the South Korean government specifically requested it. Of course, China and India together totally skew the statistics. Each of them is bigger than everybody else combined.
  • wyclif 16y ago
    I've found this to be true. Firefox is very, very popular in the Philippines on all those pirated WinXPsp3 boxes.