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____/ bbgruff on Wednesday 02 July 2008 17:41 : \____
> The Ghost In The Machine wrote:
>
>> The breakdown is as follows:
>>
>> * 577 million outdated Microsoft Internet Explorer users
>> * 38 million outdated Mozilla Firefox users
>> * 17 million outdated Apple Safari users
>> * 5 million outdated Opera users.
>>
>> [I've not a clue as to how accurate these figures are.]
>
> Let me try some figures on you, Ghost?
>
> From one site, often quoted here (granted, perhaps/probably not accurate):-
> http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=3
>
> we see that browser User Base is billed as:-
> I.E.7 45.45%
> I.E.6 26.38%
> Firefox (3.0 + 2.0) 18.44%
> Safari (3.1 + 3.2) 5.43%
> Opera 0.73%
>
> Lumping I.E.6 and I.E.7 together (as I have for versions of the others) and
> putting in brackets the % of "your" 637 million users who are not up to date
> for each browser, I get:-
>
> I.E.(7.0 + 6.0) 71.83% (but 90.6% of the people not up to date))
> Firefox (3.0 + 2.0) 18.44% (5.8%)
> Safari (3.1 + 3.2) 5.43% (2.7%)
> Opera 0.73% (0.8%)
>
> You see what's happening?
> Firefox users are *much* more likely to be up to date than others, Safari
> users are more likely to be up to date, but I.E. users are considerably
> *less* likely to be up to date.
>
> Why?
> imo the "why" is related to why 26.38% of users are still using I.E.6.
>
> Have *you* any idea why they don't shift to I.E.7 at least?
> I can think of only two reasons really, excepting web developrs etc. who will
> need it for testing, etc:-
>
> 1. I keep hearing "Linux is for geeks" etc.
> Perhaps there's a tad of truth in that.
> I think we can postulate that Linux users, on average, are more likely
> to know what they are doing? Similarly, somebody who swaps browsers
> from what they are given to what they choose to use?
> Hence, although obviously not all Windows and/or I.E. users are
> ignorant, most of the most ignorant users will be using Windows/I.E.
>
> 2. How any Windows systems are pirated, and (thereby?) perhaps not receiving
> updates?
Firefox on Linux updates itself. The same goes for Thunderbird. It's very
reliable in the sense that nothing unexpectedly 'breaks' after an update
(unlike Windows Update).
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