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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. Hooray go ETH by slashdotinmyface · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    yay ETH Zurich. Anyone else from ETH Zurich? No? Not a big deal really... Yaaaay ETH

  2. In other news by teshuvah · · Score: 0, Offtopic

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