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IE6 Still Going Strong In China

Posted by timothy on from the not-so-big-in-japan dept.

RackNine writes "Net Applications estimates that IE6 has a share of 33.8% in China, StatCounter estimates about 40.2%. Consider the fact that there are currently about 477 million Internet users in China and you get 160 to 192 million IE6 users. That is potentially more than all Internet users in Africa and the Middle East combined (187 million)."

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  1. IE6 has 30%-40% in China? by 93+Escort+Wagon · · Score: 4, Informative

    That's kind of funny in comparison to my little corner of the US. On a gardening site I run (so non-techie) I'm currently seeing IE with a 42% market share total. This is down from 51% a year ago, and somewhere around 65% the year before that.

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    1. Re:IE6 has 30%-40% in China? by outsider007 · · Score: 4, Funny

      I always thought gardeners used Gnome. *Zing

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  2. Re:Aye, pirates be the reason IE6 just won’t by yuhong · · Score: 4, Informative

    IE9+ actually.

  3. Re:Aye, pirates be the reason IE6 just won’t by obarthelemy · · Score: 5, Funny

    The next 10 versions of FireFox will still support XP. That should cover us till the end of next week.

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  4. China uses the Maxthon browser by Hermanas · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Just a thought, but isn't this because China mainly uses the Maxthon browser, which uses IE6 as its engine (or at least used to, for a looong time)? They built a browser on top of IE6 that has tabs and other modern things, so the user experience isn't as completely shit as plain old IE6.

  5. Re:Aye, pirates be the reason IE6 just won’t by hairyfeet · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Funny you should mention that as Windows 7 is easier to pirate than XP ever was. In fact not only is Windows 7 easier to pirate ( the hacked version floating around doesn't even need a code, and has all versions from Starter to Ultimate on the disc) but if you look up "Tiny7 Rev 09" you'll find a version of Windows 7 that uses less memory than XP while keeping most of the bling except the see through taskbar. How the hell those guys did it I don't know, but I decided to give it a spin on an old off lease office box I was gonna have to wipe anyway. We're talking about a 1.6Ghz with 512Mb of old SDRAM and damned if the OS isn't fricking peppy!

    As for TFA maybe someone in China can answer this next question: Is your banking tied to IE 6 like Korea? I know Korea has been stuck on IE 6 for awhile due to using ActiveX to get around the crypto export rules. Maybe China has the same problem?

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