Iexplore Zambia

[Janeen Bahrke]

Understandablymost people in Zambia are using IE6 because they are still using a copy of Windows XP and it works great on their old hardware and IE6 is bundled with Windows XP, a decision Microsoft now realises has created a monster hard to get rid off.

As Lusakatimes.com, we want to join Micrposoft in this effort. 20 % of people visiting Lusakatimes.com are still using Internet Explorer 6. This is really a huge number for us to just ignore. In fact, our site upgrades and redesign tend to take longer than required because we have to meet the needs of this 20% group.

If you are still using IE6, we want to beg you to get off it please. All the best modern and secure browsers are now free. You have a whole variety to choose from: Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer 7-9, Mozzila, Safari, Opera and many more. All these are free as in Free Beer. NI VA MAHALA!!!. Upgrade Today.

I think, its not that Microscroft wants people to stop using IE6 but they are trying to market later versions of xplorer.Microsoft is aware that,they no longer have a huge command of the market and open-source software(GNOME) has become common and dominant.people are using Mozilla Firefox because it is an open-source product,meaning a programmer will have access to the source code and its free of charge.Firefox,Google chrome,opera,Netscape and safari are better than IExplorer by microsoft.Infact open-source softwares are very potable.they work on different platforms.on windows OS,apple,Linux and UNIX.

Its sad that LT is begging Zambian users to stop using IE6 without investigating y pipo r still using IE6. However, most pipo have XP installed on there computer, much as IE6 is free for download one needs to take into the account of how many people r connected 2 INTERNET in order for them to download the software. Internet connection is very expensive in zambia. Post.Net at Manda Hill to download 32mb they changed me K 5000 last year. What more downloading IE 8,9.

#7 its nothing to do with marketing of other versions of IE, trully IE6 has alot of security holes and i would not recommend that anyone should continue using it, especially for those who do busness online busness.

#10 dont you think that if someone is using IE6 to connect it basically means he/she has access to internet, IE8 is only about 16MB and i fill anyone can manage to download it.

The sad thing about this issue is that most people running internet cafes are still using IE6

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