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Sure -- but if you're happy being an employee, not a founder, the $$$ is great.
You're missing an opening tag.
That's not his department. We put the paperwork in just waiting for approval.
Older versions of IE show a much stronger dropoff in usage over the weekend
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Re: Older versions of IE show a much stronger dropoff in usage over the weekend
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If you think this, then you don't understand enterprises. The vast majority of users you will encounter, even in their 60's, are aware, through friends, kids, family, etc that this "Google Chrome thing makes the internet faster". They want it, but your typical large enterprise foces IE down their throats, courtesy of 20+ years of rape by the legions of IT guys who, through the cognitive dissonance inducing Microsoft…
> your typical large enterprise foces IE down their throats, courtesy of 20+ years of rape by the legions of IT guys who, through the cognitive dissonance inducing Microsoft certification/training/tools process now think that everything Microsoft is magic I can't speak for every company, but in my experience there's much more to it than that. A large part of the problem is that many of the tools leveraged by Enterpri…
In many Enterprises, this is infrastructure overhead and is largely avoided (it's a huge headache/cost) until absolutely necessary. "Absolutely necessary" means when the vendor (MSoft) stops supporting that browser version. Which doesn't happen until it is well past obsolete.
And by then the Windows version will have ended support too.
Re: Older versions of IE show a much stronger dropoff in usage over the weekend
#63Can't wait when Windows XP finally gets dumped by MS. I suspect a nightmare for a lot of companies and lots of crying towards MS. I hope they don't change their decision to drop XP next year.
Re: Older versions of IE show a much stronger dropoff in usage over the weekend
#64I've written[1] about this trend way back in June of 2009. The drop wasn't as dramatic as it is now, but it was certainly there. We have (fortunately) come a long way since then.
It's also funny reading how Chrome had a 1.9% share at that time, and how I found it amazing :)
Re: Older versions of IE show a much stronger dropoff in usage over the weekend
#65We're on IE7, and XP sp3 (though some have moved to win7). Large bank with 250,000+ employees.
Re: Older versions of IE show a much stronger dropoff in usage over the weekend
#66Re: Older versions of IE show a much stronger dropoff in usage over the weekend
#67The title needs an asterisk. Because I unfortunately have the privilege of knowing an older gentleman that purposely uses IE6 on Windows XP. He calls the concept of tabs useless rubbish. And I'm not talking a regular consumer, I'm talking someone who develops actual software.
Doesn't IE (and Firefox, Opera etc.) have an option to turn off tabs entirely? Using IE6 at this point on a machine that has direct access to the internet seems rather... masochistic.
Re: Older versions of IE show a much stronger dropoff in usage over the weekend
#68We're on IE7, and XP sp3 (though some have moved to win7). Large bank with 250,000+ employees.
Is it Citibank?
I went in to open a business account the other day, they wanted to take a look at the business website, and it looked like complete crap. Took a look and it was IE7. It was like stepping into a time machine...
Re: Older versions of IE show a much stronger dropoff in usage over the weekend
#69I really hope IE6 is not in use in governments anywhere in the USA because it is not FIPS compliant and therefore not hipaa legal. Which is a huge no-no and risks very private information.
A few major lawsuits for major $$$ might solve that problem.
Re: Older versions of IE show a much stronger dropoff in usage over the weekend
#70We are seeing the same thing at https://starthq.com. We've been getting a disproportionate amount of traffic from IE gallery as a result of being the most recently featured pinned site for the past 6 weeks in the US: http://www.iegallery.com/PinnedSites
There are a few other patterns we've spotted about IE users:
They're older - we can deduce this from the the fact that many include their year of birth in their email address.
They're less tech savvy, we see people typing in in all caps, using the search as it wasn't intended - and we've actually had a few get in touch via the feedback form asking for tech support.
Also the conversion rate from visitor to sign up user is consistently 3x that of Chrome.