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Internet Users Not Updating Browser

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the but-it's-just-so-hard dept.

Jackson writes "Security researchers from ETH Zurich, Google, and IBM Internet Security Systems have shown that more than 600 million Internet users don't use the latest version of their browser. The researchers' paper, shows that as of June 2008, only 59.1 percent of Internet users worldwide use the latest major version of their preferred web browser. Suggestions have also been made to inform users that their browser is out of date."

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  1. Re:How many of those users CAN upgrade? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Windows 9x users cannot use the latest version of Firefox either.

  2. Re:How many of those users CAN upgrade? by badpazzword · · Score: 5, Informative

    They can still upgrade to Opera, which supports down to Windows 95.

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  3. Re:How many are IE6? by badpazzword · · Score: 5, Informative

    Even if you do not explicitly use Internet Explorer for browsing, you should upgrade it as it is a core part of the Windows Kernel.

    Internet Explorer it is used behind the scenes in many places; the eye-candy interfaces of most Norton products, for example, runs on the IE engine.

    Not that I recommend Norton products, still...

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