Death of IE6, Cake at 11...

[David Stone]

Spotted this today:
<http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16408850>

Interesting logo - enjoy your slice of the cake!

[David E. Ross]

Just 3 months ago, IE6 accounted for more than 13% of the IE hits to
pages at my own Web site.

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[Jukka K. Korpela]

The page says: "The software giant held the light-hearted celebration as
it revealed that the program was used by less than 1% of US internet
surfers." I wouldn't take any statistics on browser share at face value,
and even less so when given by a browser vendor.

The page that the news links to ( http://www.ie6countdown.com/ ) says
that _worlwide_ IE 6 share is 7.7%. Hardly a reason to celebrate.

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[David Stone]

In article <je21vs$be4$1...@dont-email.me>,

"Jukka K. Korpela" <jkor...@cs.tut.fi> wrote:

> 2012-01-04 16:36, David Stone wrote:
>
> > Spotted this today:
> > <http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16408850>
> >
> > Interesting logo - enjoy your slice of the cake!
>
> The page says: "The software giant held the light-hearted celebration as
> it revealed that the program was used by less than 1% of US internet
> surfers." I wouldn't take any statistics on browser share at face value,
> and even less so when given by a browser vendor.

Well, it isn't generally a good idea to take any statistics at face
value, unless you're dealing with a known population distribution!

For example, stats for my work pages show IE 6 has been down at 1% or
less for quite some time. Given the audience, however, that is not
unexpected, and hardly representative of the general population.[0]

> The page that the news links to ( http://www.ie6countdown.com/ ) says
> that _worlwide_ IE 6 share is 7.7%. Hardly a reason to celebrate.

But if Microsoft is handing out free cake...
...oh wait, you're saying that the cake is a lie?![1]

[0] Chemistry and statistics - two of the most-feared subjects,
combined into one
[1] Do I need the humour tag here? Hope not, but we'll see!

[Jonathan N. Little]

B-b-but the cake is a lie? Noooooo! Actually if only it were true, hey I
wouldn't mind if they tossed 7 & 8 and the dumpster was well!

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[Andrew Poulos]

Ha, I know of at least 2 major corporations that are on IE 6 and won't
be upgrading any time soon. So we'll be supporting IE 6 for a few more
years.

Andrew Poulos

[Jonathan N. Little]

Thy were fooled into drinking the MS-Koolaide back then eh?

[Swifty]

On Wed, 04 Jan 2012 14:39:05 -0500, "Jonathan N. Little"
<lws...@gmail.com> wrote:

>I wouldn't mind if they tossed 7 & 8 and the dumpster was well!

That would leave those of us temporarily marooned on XP with no IE
family browser.

And that would leave access to some webpages rather difficult.

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[Swifty]

On Thu, 05 Jan 2012 09:50:15 +1100, Andrew Poulos
<ap_...@hotmail.com> wrote:

>Ha, I know of at least 2 major corporations that are on IE 6 and won't
>be upgrading any time soon.

My corporation (major) was stuck with IE6 because we'd become somewhat
dependant on several vendor products whose owners were not keen on
extending support beyond IE6.

Hopefully we now require some commitment to open browser support in
new contracts.

[Jonathan N. Little]

Swifty wrote:
> On Wed, 04 Jan 2012 14:39:05 -0500, "Jonathan N. Little"
> <lws...@gmail.com> wrote:
>

>> I wouldn't mind if they tossed 7& 8 and the dumpster was well!

>
> That would leave those of us temporarily marooned on XP with no IE
> family browser.
>
> And that would leave access to some webpages rather difficult.
>

The last threat from M$ is you only have 2 more years before your *must*
swallow the upgrade pill.