IE6 Usage Dips Below 5 Percent
PrintWe're not yet ready to read IE6's eulogy, but it might not be long before an obituary listing is in order. For the first time in a long time, U.S. usage of IE6 dropped below 5 percent -- 4.74 percent too be exact, and 4.61 percent in Europe, according to Web analytics firm StatCounter.
That's quite the different landscape than one year ago. Back then, IE6 usage hovered at around 11.5 percent, but newer browsers, including Microsoft's own IE7 and IE8, have continued to chip away at IE6's usage numbers.
That's not such a bad thing. Security holes are a concern for the dated Web browser, and developers "who have often had to recode their site to get it to work" are growing tired of doing so, notes StatCounter CEO Aodhan Cullen.
"At these levels Web developers now have valid justification not to support IE6 in the future," Cullen added.
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nickb64
June 02, 2010 at 7:33pm
My school will likely remain on IE6 for a few more years, until they totally phase out the ~900MHz Pentium III Windows 98 machines and Celeron D machines for the Core 2 Quads they are being replaced with slowly. They may not move even then, as we'll still be on XP Pro until those machines are phased out. I guess I don't have to worry about that, and neither does my little sister, as I'll be done next year, and she'll be done a couple years later.
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Die, IE6, die already.
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