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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. MOD PARENT DOWN by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Trying to reply to the fp'er to get his karma up to bad from terrible. KDAWSON didn't even make this story. Read the summary, and then read the article, douche.

  2. Re:How many of those users CAN upgrade? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    The trolls sure are coming out of the woodworks today. Must be a full moon, or maybe summer hollidays