Internet Explorer 6 Market Share Finally Falls Under 5%

[A Guy]

The Internet Explorer 6 death watch continues, but the end is near. Microsoft’s ancient browser may still haunt web developers’ nightmares, but according to the latest data from Net Applications, its global market share has now finally dipped under 5 percent.

Even Microsoft will be quite happy to see this, especially given that, for Internet Explorer as a whole, the last month was pretty good (though it still has IE6 at 6.1 percent global market share).

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A Guy

 

[ThrashZone]

That's sort of crazy to think people are still using such an old version,
They didn't even show ie7

 

[lehnerus2000]

Change The Chart Type

That's sort of crazy to think people are still using such an old version,
They didn't even show ie7

IE 7 shows up if you change the chart from Pie to Bar (1.37%).

 

[PwnFrnzy]

What worries me most is that it took this long to fall that far.

 

[ThrashZone]

That's sort of crazy to think people are still using such an old version,
They didn't even show ie7

IE 7 shows up if you change the chart from Pie to Bar (1.37%).

Very cool,
Still a little disturbing though,
These people certainly aren't using gmail... probably a herd of x-p users ?

 

[vaidas3]

These people certainly aren't using gmail... probably a herd of x-p users ?

would think so xp users with updates disabled maybe because they think WU is evil or because they are ignorant.

 

[A Guy]

There are always people who think some older version of a program is the best version. We see it when they switch from XP to 7 and want to get some ancient program to work. A Guy

 

[smarteyeball]

WU is evil or because they are ignorant.

Or long lasting pirated copies.

 

[Dude]

Also some companies use old vendor software which only works with older versions of IE.

 

[lehnerus2000]

Or long lasting pirated copies.

And people say that XP is unreliable.

 

[jimbo45]

Hi there
not sure that this statistic means anything - even at a Pub Quiz evening.

After all I'll bet the use of the ABACUS has fallen significantly too in the last 1000 years, or Sony Walkman cassette players etc etc.

Technology moves on.


Cheers
jimbo