On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 9:57 AM, Chris McMahon cmcmahon@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 5:21 AM, Arun Ganesh arun.planemad@gmail.comwrote:
6% of wikimedia project page views are from IE6/7 - because of the
following:
- IE6 ships default with XP
- Legal users with SP2+ can upgrade to IE8
- If you have 90s era hardware, no SP for you. Can only be solved by buying
some new hardware (or switching to linux)
- IT admins who dont know much about IT and have kept the workforce hostage
through their ignorance. Can be solved if the workforce and boss demands it.
I'd like to reframe these examples.
First, as I understand it, most IE6/IE7 users globally are running pirated versions of Windows. For financial or political reasons, they will not or can not acquire legal versions and thus can't upgrade their browsers.
No, I'm pretty sure that's not true at all. Even if they are running a pirated version they can still update their browsers.