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Re: YC startups unite to drive nail into the coffin of Internet Explorer 6

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Post by Jem » Wed, Aug 05, 2009, 1:22 PM UTC

emmett wrote: post #50

rawr wrote: post #43

Oooh, look out! A bunch of companies with no established user bases are going to boycott you! This will get the grannies to upgrade their computer machines for sure.

It's not a boycott, just a dismissible nag message. Did you read the article? Also, the number of people from these startups is approximately (data from quantcast): 4.1 million (jtv us) + 1.3 million (weebly us) + 1.7 million (reddit us) + 1.3 million (posterous) + 0.5 million (disqus us) = 8.9 million US people. Global reach is probably 2-3x that much, but quantcast doesn't offer global numbers for all of them (JTV…

Perhaps I'm misreading your analysis but it seems to me you're suggesting that the US visitor count for each of those sites is 8.9 million people total? I would suggest it's actually much lower - the chances are that the people who use reddit are the same sorts of people that use posterous and disqus (and so on). You're potentially counting 1 person who uses all 5 sites as 5 separate people.

The problem I see is that - particularly for reddit, posterous and disqus - the audience is mostly technical (or at least fairly Internet literate). These are not the types of people who need to warned about IE6.

Re: YC startups unite to drive nail into the coffin of Internet Explorer 6

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Post by cpach » Wed, Aug 05, 2009, 1:30 PM UTC

andyking wrote: post #72

trapper wrote: post #71

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You are luckier than us - some of our customers machines are so locked down that they can't even change the date let alone install firefox. We even tried using portable apps on a usb stick, no luck there either! Arrgh.

Someone installed Firefox on a computer at a non-profit radio station I was involved with not so long ago. The owner of the station sent an email to all saying that if he found out who had installed the "firefox trojan" on the office PC, he would "sue them and call in the police". A few days later, all computers in the building had been downgraded from IE8 to IE6 and locked down so users couldn't even reboot. It's no…

If they're running Windows, I can somewhat understand the paranoia.

Re: YC startups unite to drive nail into the coffin of Internet Explorer 6

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Post by c00p3r » Wed, Aug 05, 2009, 1:57 PM UTC

Still using IE6 means avoiding forced updates from MS, so, they probably were disabled security updates. It means they are the source of bootnets and hosting for trojans and viruses.

Re: YC startups unite to drive nail into the coffin of Internet Explorer 6

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Post by gdee » Wed, Aug 05, 2009, 2:29 PM UTC

whatusername wrote: post #92

rantfoil wrote: post #82

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What punch did we get beaten to, exactly?

Doesn't google show Chrome ads on google.com and youtube.com for users with IE6. They have a couple more page views than the YC alumni network.

>> Doesn't google show Chrome ads on google.com and youtube.com for users with IE6.

They do. I for one, wish they'd stop doing it for FF users too though. It's getting really annoying.