Internet Explorer 6 Countdown

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by DanielRibeiro • 14 years ago

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joshschreuder• 14 years ago

What is the reason behind IE6 usage still being so high in the PR of China?

asparagui• 14 years ago

hacked xp installs?

est• 14 years ago

Yup.

In China this is how Windows was installed:

Windows XP with the latest drivers, KB fix, updates, service packs, and Office, IM, games, tools, packed into a 300MB Norton Ghost image, boot from a USB disk (the USB disk can even act as an USB-CDROM device), everything is automated, the image-to-disk copy takes about 10 minutes. Then you have everything ready.

IE6 was installed like this like 10 years ago.

cypherpunks01• 14 years ago

Pirated XP installs: http://micgadget.com/11633/why-the-chinese-still-favour-inte...

w1ntermute4• 14 years ago

Why isn't this nearly as big of a problem in India?

Laremere2• 14 years ago

If I had to guess, it's because their internet is so cut off from the rest of the world that modern day pressures to move away from using it don't have as much impact.

Laremere2• 14 years ago

I think an interesting breakdown would be instead of counties, go by language. China is bending the statistic so far that it's the only one above the world wide average. It would be much more useful to know that if I were making a website only in English how many users I could expect to use IE 6.

accountswu3• 14 years ago

Am I the only one who thought that China (22.4%) was colored with the more sharp orange shade that is associated with the >25% in the key? I actually took a screenshot and copied the color box to confirm, the color of China is lighter orange shade that's for the right range (20-25%).

pattern• 14 years ago

Hex color of 20-25% in legend: #FF9233

Hex color of China: #FF8A00

Hex color of orange square in the "list view": #F7921E

As an aside - for a while now OS X has been shipping with a tool called "DigitalColor Meter" which allows you to see the color at your cursor tip in RGB or Hex. I find it extremely useful for situations like this, as well as the "zoom in" feature to be able to see if there is a border on a particular element, for example.

accountswu3• 14 years ago

Interesting, I did not bother to see the exact RGB values but copying the color box and pasting it near China's map seemed same / similar to the naked eye. I am on Win 7 and I thought there's nothing built-in for that except for the legendary mspaint :)

I just checked in paint and I'm surprised they have a color picker built-in!! MSPaint has finally evolved in Win 7 and I am learning that just now :) (I knew this version has zoom and a couple of other nicer options but OMG I had no idea that even the color picker is included)

pedrolll• 14 years ago

Also, why is "unknown" almost the same colour as "1-5%"? To me it seems that most of the world is unknown, including India, yet they still have statistics for India. Confusing...

accountswu3• 14 years ago

Yeah, I don't know how they have stats for India, I didn't dig into the sources.

josephcooney3• 14 years ago

Brought to you by Microsoft. Has any company ever worked harder to get people to stop using one of its products?

nivla• 14 years ago

>Has any company ever worked harder to get people to stop using one of its products?

Wouldn't that be a compliment to the company???

josephcooney3• 14 years ago

I think it is great that Microsoft are working hard to try and get people to move off a product that has passed its 'sell by' date (see obligatory reference to the "IE6 is like old milk" campaign they ran http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/05/16/microsoft_rotten_mil...).

_b8r02• 14 years ago

Not sure if you're referring to IE6 or Vista...

blahedo• 14 years ago

I remember being confused by this before, but don't remember the resolution: how is it that we're supposed to interpret that ring chart on the lower right? I think I understand the numbers written next to the countries on the ring (namely, percent of ALL internet traffic represented by IE6 users in that country—adding up to 6.3%, the number in the box on the upper right), but those numbers don't correspond to the proportion of the ring.

EDIT: For instance, consider the US. 0.6% of US users use IE6 (from the map). US usage is high, so that accounts for 1.3% of world internet traffic being US-IE6 users, which would be a bit more than 1/5 of the IE6 users. But the US segment of the ring chart is maybe 1/12 of the ring. What does that 1/12 correspond to?

infinity• 14 years ago

This inaccuracy is a common problem with graphs and charts. The proprotions do not match in this case. Maybe the ring has been designed by a designer, constructed with old data, and now it is easy to change the numbers in the graphic, but difficult to adjust the size of the ring segments? Or maybe somebody has just forgotten to update the ring segments when the last update of the numbers was made.

Sometimes fancy, but graphically inccurate, charts are used to cheat and deceive, by representing small things larger or big things smaller. Putting a pie chart in 3D can have the effect of altering the perceived information, because if you're looking at the pie chart from above but slighly sideways, the part of the chart closer to you may appear larger, and since you can rotate the chart before rendering the final picture the choice of that part is yours.

_b8r02• 14 years ago

I think it would be good to be able to cross reference browser usage with OS usage. For example, are people moving from IE6/XP to IE7/XP, IE9/Windows 7, Safari/OSX, Chrome/Linux etc?

jpswade• 14 years ago

Chrome Frame is a really good way to gracefully migrate IE6 users to Google Chrome.

http://www.google.com/chromeframe/

oneandoneis2• 14 years ago

You know, I'm moderately baffled by why MS persists in maintaining IE at all - even IE 9 is considered "the problem child" by web devs trying to use shiny New Things.

Why DO MS persist in maintaining their own browser when they're manifestly not very good at it?

At the least, couldn't they make it easier all-round by following Google's example and base IE off Webkit? Better standards compliance, cheaper development, win-win surely?

Not a flame, I'm genuinely interested in why MS persist in (what seems to me to be) flogging the dead horse of Internet Explorer.

AndrewDucker• 14 years ago

Because there are a _lot_ of internal business apps dependent on it.

Many large businesses wrote applications using ActiveX, and still use them 10 years later. MS have promised support for all components of Windows XP until 2014, and that includes IE6.

xyzzyb• 14 years ago

That explains why they still support IE6, but not why they developed IE7 through 9.

mariuz• 14 years ago

anyone for a ie general countdown ? after the ie8 http://theie8countdown.com/

we can spread iex countdown http://theie10countdown.com/

yuhong• 14 years ago

Not for every version. IE8 countdown is bit difficult at this point but eventually will be worth the effort. I wouldn't bother with IE9 and IE10. In fact, look at the font-face in the CSS, the only reason it fails in IE9 is that they did not specify a WOFF version.

FrancescoRizzi• 14 years ago

6.3% (Worldwide). By now I was expecting some (serious, aka not ironic) preservation effort to have started..

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