I'd like to see a well researched, estimated total national/international cost to the industry for support of IE.
Internet Explorer falls below 50% market share
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Re: Internet Explorer falls below 50% market share
#22This means nothing to those who develop for the Enterprise world :-(. We still have clients who are on Windows 2000+IE6.
In a way, I can't wait to go back to consumer development.
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#23Unfortunately, I have to deal with a much different picture in my case. The web application is often used by either complete computer illiterates or users in large corporate installations (or both). My IE numbers (looking at the three biggest installations): IE percentage: 80, 90, 98 - IE6 percentage: 30, 50, 40 No Chrome. No Safari. Rest is Firefox (2.0, 3.0, 3.5 and 3.6). I weep when I consider the amount of develo…
Chrome is a disallowed program on our network by "Symantec Endpoint Protection". You can install Firefox but it's discouraged by the IT department. I wouldn't doubt if these setups are common among larger corporations.
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#24The biggest problem with IE6 that I see with my company, is that a lot of corporate clients still have IE6 on their machines because of their lazy IT departments. So they don't care if only 0.0000000000001% of the traffic is from IE6 because it happens to be them.
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#25I bet a good percentage of that 50% are bots using the IE user-agent.
Bots that execute analytics javascript? Sure they're out there, but that's a very, very small percentage.
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#26I just checked Learnhub's numbers (http://learnhub.com) and IE is now at 40%, it was 54% a year ago. Most of the traffic comes from India.
Chrome went from 7.5% to 20% in the same time frame.
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#27The biggest problem with IE6 that I see with my company, is that a lot of corporate clients still have IE6 on their machines because of their lazy IT departments. So they don't care if only 0.0000000000001% of the traffic is from IE6 because it happens to be them.
There are also apps that rely on IE6 and simply do not work properly in IE7 nor IE8. These apps would also have to be updated which, with tight purse strings in some companies, is not bound to happen soon.
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Wow, Google runs ads on Television? I consume all of my video media from the Internet these days so I guess I just didn't know, but that's surprising to me. Do they run the same type of promotional videos that you find on YouTube about Chrome, or are they totally different adverts?
Here in India, Google has run a full-page print ad recently. http://www.labnol.org/india/google-chrome-ads-in-indian-news...
I noticed that their print ad drops the http:// from the URL just like the browser itself.
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I'm not sure, but Woobius might be UK-centric, and Google have been heavily pushing Chrome in TV advertising there.
Wow, Google runs ads on Television? I consume all of my video media from the Internet these days so I guess I just didn't know, but that's surprising to me. Do they run the same type of promotional videos that you find on YouTube about Chrome, or are they totally different adverts?
Google ran an ad during the Super Bowl this year.
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#30Unfortunately, I have to deal with a much different picture in my case. The web application is often used by either complete computer illiterates or users in large corporate installations (or both). My IE numbers (looking at the three biggest installations): IE percentage: 80, 90, 98 - IE6 percentage: 30, 50, 40 No Chrome. No Safari. Rest is Firefox (2.0, 3.0, 3.5 and 3.6). I weep when I consider the amount of develo…
I nearly fell off my chair when one of our new enterprise customers asked me if we could provide them the app... but with Firefox support because that was all they used. Heaven :)
You are very luck.