Comments on: Encouraging IE6 Usage Trends

By: jayell

jayell — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:16:47 +0000

Don’t nock the Amiga OS it IS more popular than Windows Vista (even if less ppl use it)

By: Jamie Thompson

Jamie Thompson — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 08:56:04 +0000

I must agree that the OS stats look a bit suss http://www.thecounter.com/stats/2008/October/os.php

I don’t think Amiga OS can really be more popular than Windows Vista

By: Lyall

Lyall — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 08:26:30 +0000

^ In that case I stand corrected, I still think their stats are a bit suspect – check out OS stats for Vista for example.

It seems you don’t have to pass WGA anymore in XP to get IE7 either…

By: M. Auayan

M. Auayan — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 21:19:41 +0000

@Lyall – the stats for Sept. 2001 came from: http://www.thecounter.com/stats/2001/September/browser.php

By: Lyall

Lyall — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 14:45:50 +0000

Nice article

Whilst users of old IE versions will udoubtedly dwindle over time I don’t entirely trust these statistics.

http://www.thecounter.com/stats/

They only have stats dating back to 11/2002 and IE6 was launched 08/2001… where do the first 13 months of stats come from in this graph? Maybe I’ve missed something.

Like you say most people don’t actually know what a browser is (or an address bar for that matter), i suspect that rather than the majority of users making a conscious decision to upgrade their browser uptake of IE7 directly correlates to the uptake of Windows Vista and the amount of people who have Windows Update enabled in XP (with a legit License to pass WGA in order to qualify for the download).

I’d be surprised to see history repeating itself here, moreso when you throw IE8 (out late 2008) into the equation.

By: Fuzzy Orange

Fuzzy Orange — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 11:58:11 +0000

Bang on mate!

I think web developers/designers should be doing more to push people to use new browsers

If a new version of flash comes out – it automatically updates on your machine, same with java. If you want to use some new features in jquery you update the library and you use it. I have never understood why people keep trying to support software that is years and years out of date

A new website comes out, it needs features only new browsers support. If you cant be bothered to update your software then you dont get to see the site..

Its the way i’ll be working from now on, im constantly recommending to our client base that they’re experience will be a lot more bug free if using IE7 or FF3… its hard enough making web apps without having to support 6 year old browsers.