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Story: Report: Outdated browsers put 637m users at risk

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Where did they find these users?

I have access to stats for over 50 sites covering a range of genres and never seen the less than 25% Firefox users in the last 6months. Infact in most cases it's around 34%. Agree with the figures for percentage of IE7 to IE6 users though. On tech sites there is usually more IE7 users than IE6 and on non-tech sites it is usually IE6 that has it's nose in front but in each case it's pretty even between the two.

I don't think it's microsofts responsibilty to force users to upgrade. They have IE7 as the default browser on their latest OS and prevented the install of IE6 and have included IE7 as a free update or manual download.

The only way I see IE6 users finally being forced to update is either:
1) wide spread attacks on the less secure browser - scaring users into updating.
2) Web developers stop supporting it (most sites require some tweaking to get it to render in IE6 correctly when this stops people will eventually have enough of looking at broken pages and will upgrade)
3) Microsoft stop selling XP and users are eventually forced onto vista or a newer OS which will not support IE6

I personally hate IE6 users as I have to spend so much time tweaking just for them and cannot use some cool new features/tricks that other browsers support because IE doesn't. IE6 users are holding back the web.

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