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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. How many of those users CAN upgrade? by gravyface · · Score: 5, Interesting

    If you're running Win9x/2000, you can't upgrade to the latest version of Internet Explorer.

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  2. A good chuck of that 52% is corporate policy. by 1shooter · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The IT drones at my employer rigidly demand that all company machines must run IE6. They've coded all their intranet applications solely for that version and by god they will not budge. Firefox is forbidden as a "security risk" and no where to be seen is IE7. Fortunately for me I work on Linux based projects and and run what I please.

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  3. Re:Firefox vs. IE by gfxguy · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Noscript is ridiculous... I mean, it's not like ad-block where advertisers find new ways to annoy you and ad-block has to find a way to counter it; nocscript simply disallows running scripts... is it that bad that there's three new versions a week?

    The answer is no... from what I read elsewhere, noscript updates take advantage of a flaw in computing the popularity of plug-ins by continuously updating so that they always get ranked at or near the top.

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