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Anyone have any theories why IE6 would be gaining marketshare?
by abraham 15y ago
Anyone have any theories why IE6 would be gaining marketshare?
- vgnet 15y agoIf you go to http://marketshare.hitslink.com/ http://marketshare.hitslink.com/, it also shows that Windows XP had an increase in marketshare. So my guess would be that some huge market (China?) added noise to the numbers, due to their methodology based on "estimated internet users per country".
- redthrowaway 15y agoThis is what I was thinking. This is (hopefully!) not due to people choosing to use IE6, but likely due to people installing a likely pirated copy of XP who were not previously Internet users.
- ticks 15y agoI suspect it's partly due to businesses continuing to use XP. I know of one company that's set-up a major division locally, and all their new computers are XP with IE6 - which is something to think about if you have a start-up that caters for business users.
- program 15y agoIE6 (and XP) still dominate in China and there are approximately 420 million Internet users. Over 90% of software is pirated, most Chinese users never connect to Windows Update or even upgrading their web browser. Also a lot of Chinese websites have been built to work with IE6 only (e.g. banks). http://www.ie6countdown.com/ http://www.ie6countdown.com/