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It really demonstrates (imho) the technical lag of companies: During the week people are browsing at work and it looks like many are still shackled to IE. But o

It really demonstrates (imho) the technical lag of companies: During the week people are browsing at work and it looks like many are still shackled to IE. But on the weekend they go home and use what they want, and that is clearly chrome. Kind of amazing to visualize at this granularity what pops out.

danmaz74 14y ago
It might also be that on weekends there are fewer internet users in general, but with a higher percentage of the more technically aware ones...
- betterth 14y ago
  I think that both of these (plus a number of effects yet unnamed) affect it. One of his links, the by version: http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser_version_partially_combined-ww-daily-20120531-20120629 http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser_version_partially_combine... Has some interesting information that I think sheds more light on this: IE8 and IE7 both have weekend dips. (IE6's usage is too small to matter anymore). (IE8 dips almost 25% of it's total, IE7 significantly dips almost 50% but it's already a tiny amount). However, Chrome, IE9, Safari iPad all have weekend peaks. Even Safari itself has an almost unnoticeable uptick on the weekend. This leads me to believe that almost 4% of all internet users use IE7/8 at work and use to Chrome/IE9/iPad on the weekend.
recoiledsnake 14y ago
>But on the weekend they go home and use what they want, and that is clearly chrome At least some of that traffic comes from preinstalled OEM copies, which Google pays the OEMs for having Chrome preinstalled as the default browser. Also, it comes bundled with things like Java, Acrobat Reader,CCleaner, Divx Player, RealPlayer, Avast and Flash etc., so if people just click next, which most tend to do, they end up with Chrome on their machine. I think it used to come with Skype before Microsoft bought it. http://mobilesociety.typepad.com/mobile_life/2011/09/outrage-adobe-flash-installs-chrome-during-security-update.html http://mobilesociety.typepad.com/mobile_life/2011/09/outrage... http://www.ghacks.net/2012/02/26/avast-7-will-install-google-chrome-if-you-do-not-pay-attention/ http://www.ghacks.net/2012/02/26/avast-7-will-install-google... http://www.osnews.com/story/25184/Adobe_Tricks_Users_into_Downloading_Installing_Google_Chrome/ http://www.osnews.com/story/25184/Adobe_Tricks_Users_into_Do... http://www.salsitasoft.com/2011/09/23/wonder-how-chrome-is-growing-market-share-ask-adobe/ http://www.salsitasoft.com/2011/09/23/wonder-how-chrome-is-g... Not to mention heavily pushing Chrome on Google properties like the search page, Youtube, Gmail etc. etc. Google chat once hung in my Gmail tab in Opera, and when I reloaded it I got the message which said something like "Slow browser? Switch to Chrome.." So Google's effectively buying marketshare with their search profits to cut out the middlemen like Firefox and Opera. Browsers like Firefox, Opera do not have the resources to push their browser this way and get people to try them.
- tysonjennings 14y ago
  Dude, have you ever considered doing anything other than cheerleading MS and hating on Google. I have never seen a single post by you on here or Slashdot that was not either defending MS or being negative towards Google in some way. How pathetic.
  - cooldeal 14y ago
    Have you considered anything other than cheerleading Google and Android and hating on Apple/MS? And I like how you attack him personally and call him pathetic because you have no answer to his post and thus want to wish it away. How pathetic.
    - hammersend 14y ago
      You're One To Talk Being Worse Than RecoiledSnake.you Are Probably One Of The Most Obnoxious Google Haters On This Site. Also I Just Looked Through Tysons Post History And He Is In No Way A Google Cheerleader Or Microsoft Hater. Consider Growing Up. P.s. Ignore My Capital Letters. Jellybean doesn't work well with Swype yet.
  - recoiledsnake 14y ago
    I am sorry, I didn't know I was supposed to cheerlead Google and Apple and hate on Microsoft on here like the hundreds of other commenters. I am sure HN needs more of them. Is there some place where this policy is listed on HN(apart from being obvious in the "pathetic" moderation, story selection and flagging) so that I and the few others who don't share your Google and Apple worship can pack up and leave once for all and not subject you to the horrors of alternate opinions or facts that you seem to find very uncomfortable and pathetic? Or maybe I'll just do what you tell me to and go away, and you can worship your Gods in peace without heretics getting your way. I like how the many commenters that only submit comments and stories that are heavily anti-MS and pro-Google/Apple are not pathetic but I am. I am sure you find them awesome.
    - awakeasleep 14y ago
clemesha 14y ago
Yeah, exactly. Check this "visual proof that employees are still required to use Internet Explorer at work" post I did a while back: http://clemesha.posterous.com/you-must-use-internet-explorer-at-work-visual http://clemesha.posterous.com/you-must-use-internet-explorer...
mtgx 14y ago
If even the State Department is moving to Chrome, there is hope yet.
ThomPete 14y ago
This is exactly right. Many of the largest companies simply don't want to handle the almost impossible workload on getting everyone onto a new browser. In some ways it would be more fair to blame Fortune 500 companies than MS for the IE tie in.

danmaz74 14y ago

It might also be that on weekends there are fewer internet users in general, but with a higher percentage of the more technically aware ones...

betterth 14y ago
I think that both of these (plus a number of effects yet unnamed) affect it. One of his links, the by version: http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser_version_partially_combined-ww-daily-20120531-20120629 http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser_version_partially_combine... Has some interesting information that I think sheds more light on this: IE8 and IE7 both have weekend dips. (IE6's usage is too small to matter anymore). (IE8 dips almost 25% of it's total, IE7 significantly dips almost 50% but it's already a tiny amount). However, Chrome, IE9, Safari iPad all have weekend peaks. Even Safari itself has an almost unnoticeable uptick on the weekend. This leads me to believe that almost 4% of all internet users use IE7/8 at work and use to Chrome/IE9/iPad on the weekend.

recoiledsnake 14y ago

>But on the weekend they go home and use what they want, and that is clearly chrome At least some of that traffic comes from preinstalled OEM copies, which Google pays the OEMs for having Chrome preinstalled as the default browser. Also, it comes bundled with things like Java, Acrobat Reader,CCleaner, Divx Player, RealPlayer, Avast and Flash etc., so if people just click next, which most tend to do, they end up with Chrome on their machine. I think it used to come with Skype before Microsoft bought it. http://mobilesociety.typepad.com/mobile_life/2011/09/outrage-adobe-flash-installs-chrome-during-security-update.html http://mobilesociety.typepad.com/mobile_life/2011/09/outrage... http://www.ghacks.net/2012/02/26/avast-7-will-install-google-chrome-if-you-do-not-pay-attention/ http://www.ghacks.net/2012/02/26/avast-7-will-install-google... http://www.osnews.com/story/25184/Adobe_Tricks_Users_into_Downloading_Installing_Google_Chrome/ http://www.osnews.com/story/25184/Adobe_Tricks_Users_into_Do... http://www.salsitasoft.com/2011/09/23/wonder-how-chrome-is-growing-market-share-ask-adobe/ http://www.salsitasoft.com/2011/09/23/wonder-how-chrome-is-g... Not to mention heavily pushing Chrome on Google properties like the search page, Youtube, Gmail etc. etc. Google chat once hung in my Gmail tab in Opera, and when I reloaded it I got the message which said something like "Slow browser? Switch to Chrome.." So Google's effectively buying marketshare with their search profits to cut out the middlemen like Firefox and Opera. Browsers like Firefox, Opera do not have the resources to push their browser this way and get people to try them.

tysonjennings 14y ago
Dude, have you ever considered doing anything other than cheerleading MS and hating on Google. I have never seen a single post by you on here or Slashdot that was not either defending MS or being negative towards Google in some way. How pathetic.
- cooldeal 14y ago
  Have you considered anything other than cheerleading Google and Android and hating on Apple/MS? And I like how you attack him personally and call him pathetic because you have no answer to his post and thus want to wish it away. How pathetic.
  - hammersend 14y ago
    You're One To Talk Being Worse Than RecoiledSnake.you Are Probably One Of The Most Obnoxious Google Haters On This Site. Also I Just Looked Through Tysons Post History And He Is In No Way A Google Cheerleader Or Microsoft Hater. Consider Growing Up. P.s. Ignore My Capital Letters. Jellybean doesn't work well with Swype yet.
- recoiledsnake 14y ago
  I am sorry, I didn't know I was supposed to cheerlead Google and Apple and hate on Microsoft on here like the hundreds of other commenters. I am sure HN needs more of them. Is there some place where this policy is listed on HN(apart from being obvious in the "pathetic" moderation, story selection and flagging) so that I and the few others who don't share your Google and Apple worship can pack up and leave once for all and not subject you to the horrors of alternate opinions or facts that you seem to find very uncomfortable and pathetic? Or maybe I'll just do what you tell me to and go away, and you can worship your Gods in peace without heretics getting your way. I like how the many commenters that only submit comments and stories that are heavily anti-MS and pro-Google/Apple are not pathetic but I am. I am sure you find them awesome.
  - awakeasleep 14y ago

clemesha 14y ago

Yeah, exactly. Check this "visual proof that employees are still required to use Internet Explorer at work" post I did a while back: http://clemesha.posterous.com/you-must-use-internet-explorer-at-work-visual http://clemesha.posterous.com/you-must-use-internet-explorer...

mtgx 14y ago

If even the State Department is moving to Chrome, there is hope yet.

ThomPete 14y ago

This is exactly right. Many of the largest companies simply don't want to handle the almost impossible workload on getting everyone onto a new browser. In some ways it would be more fair to blame Fortune 500 companies than MS for the IE tie in.