hey, I’m not agree with you! firefox and chrome supporting maximum functionality but only IE giving lots of pain to developers 
Agreed – the sad part is there is NO legitimate excuse for them not to be able to make a standalone version of the browser for legacy systems back to win2k since win32 is win32… or even back to win98 as things like KernelEx show with FF and Opera… Both of which officially dropped windows 98 support, but you mod it with KernelEx and many win2k/XP softwares will run just fine on it. They are STILL tying it too closely to the OS – as evidenced by this ‘metro’ garbage on Win 8 – which while fine and dandy on nettops and smaller devices, is basically M$ giving desktop users with displays larger than 19" the finger in terms of functionality.
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NOT that metro is all that useful small screen with the various boxes just thrown on the screen any old way in garish and random colors to the point you can’t tell anything apart – said boxes in playschool colors resulting in a UI that looks like it was designed by a eight year old… and this is supposed to be an improvement?
Dunno where you’re getting $300, unless you’re throwing money away on ‘ultimate’… and even Ultimate x64 only costs $189… Home premium which is ALL most people need is $99 (since the only REAL reason to have pro or ultimate are for bitlocker and support for more than 16 gigs RAM), which is what Apple USED to have the cojones to charge for UPGRADES. Well, unless you’re doing something really STUPID like buying retail box instead of OEM.
Which is the real laugh of Apples prices – they charge money for what Microsoft would give you for free as a service pack.
Also since OSX only runs (legally) on Apple branded hardware, the cost of the OS is figured into your sticker price when you buy their overpriced Ikea-style kool-aid. Microsoft doesn’t SELL hardware – you’re seeing the bare vendor price since you really aren’t supposed to buy either of them standalone. This is also why the hardware is cheaper.
Also why I can get copies of Home Premium on my reseller account for around $69 a pop for orders in bundles of 3, and hardware OEM’s like Dell or HP pay a fraction that.
AND you’re comparing upgrade costs to retail purchase, since thanks to the people running hackintoshes Apple has stopped selling standalone install boxes at retail since Lion dropped.
Yes exactly ! IE6 already upgraded into IE7 and now most of the organisation uses IE8 and IE9 for Windows Xp and Window 7 MS OS.
That’s not quite true. You can’t use IE9 in a native Windows XP environment, as ScallioXTX said earlier in this thread, because IE9 uses the Direct2D accelerator which doesn’t work on XP.
All I can say is: It’s about time.
It’s still alive for 6.2% of the population. Take a look at this, http://www.ie6countdown.com/. China with 22% usage.
@ralph_m; @ScallioXTX;
I use XP, I would not go to Vista and I don’t see a need for 7. Having said this it’s shocking that I cannot get the latest version of IE on my computer. I strongly feel that Microsoft is just plain WRONG! Let’s face it Google Chrome is far better, so why else would I need the latest version of IE if it’s not for testing purposes of those who still use it.
As for upgrading my OS. I use XP, XP in my opinion is the most successful Microsoft OS. I remember it back in 2001, it’s 2012 now! Everything that I need to work on my computer works, unless the program is for a mac (e.g. Code, ImageOptim, ImageAlpha). I’ve found mac’s to be a much worse OS in versioning than Windows OS’s. My dad’s got a mac and I can’t run programs on it because apparently the OS is of an older version. This, up-to-now has never happened on my PC, and that’s with a 10+ year old OS.
I personally don’t think people will let Microsoft kill off XP so easily, and strapping new IE versions to the new OS is a major mistake in my opinion.
When I calculate the average (spreadsheet) using their numbers from the section that shows the percentage for each country, they average out to 1.71%.
When we remove China’s usage from the average we get 1.21% instead.
That 6.2% seems to be somewhat inflated. I would love to find out how they came up with that figure, because the numbers as they are don’t match up.
According to this, IE6 has 1.17% market share now.
True, it’s fairly common for new Mac software to be written for the most recent OS versions. But then again, it’s so cheap to upgrade to the latest versions that this is not such a big issue.
@ralph_m;
I am not a mac user, so I’d be interested to know the steps involved in upgrading. I might upgrade my dad considering his OS is causing major issues in compatibility for him.
The problem, Paul, is that you’ve assumed the same number of people in each country. By simply taking an average of the %ages, you’ve given China (pop ~1.4bn) the same significance as Finland (pop ~5m) and every other country in between. What you would need to do is to work out the total number of people in each country, and the total number using IE6, and use that to calculate the global average.
[font=verdana]OK, slight change to the calculation, it needs to be on the number of internet users in a country, rather than the total population.
Using the proportions on IE6countdown and the internet-using-population figures from Wikipedia, I make the proportion of internet users still in the Dark Ages as 7.0% with China, or 1.5% without. The slight variance between 7.0% and 6.2% is almost certainly down to slightly different data sets, but it isn’t far out.[/font]
Thanks, that makes better sense. Just as a percentage of the internet using population we end up at a more reasonable 7% percent, so the 6.2% figure does now seems to be more reasonable.
These days, assuming you have an internet connection, you head over to the Mac App Store, find the latest OS, and download it. (An account needs to be set up first, if he doesn’t already have one.) From that point, the whole upgrade happens by itself. (It’s worth backing up the computer first, of course—using TimeMachine, SuperDuper or whatever. But I’ve never had a problem upgrading … in 20 something years.)
LOL! 1/6 of the world’s popular is in china 
@ralph_m;
I assume it’s free? Maybe?
Ah, no. It’s around $35 where I live (hence the need for an account). That seems a lot more reasonable that the price of upgrading Windows (… but I get criticized when I cite prices for that, so I’ll keep my mouth shut. :x ).
Already, IE6 is gone…next IE7,IE8…Keep on going like this because people may looking for advanced version…when it comes they forgot about the old version.