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If you use IE6, why do you not upgrade?   [Edit]

Survey period: 25 Jan 2010 to 1 Feb 2010

Motivated by our frustration with designing for IE6 and inspired by results from a Digg survey, we want to know the reasons why you are using an old browser.

OptionVotes% 
I can't upgrade because my operating system is too old162.00
I can't upgrade because I don't have admin rights on my machine232.88
I can't upgrade because I'm not allowed to688.50
I tried to upgrade but the upgrade installation fails for me111.38
I tried to upgrade but I am having trouble downloading the upgrade files20.25
I don't want to upgrade. IE6 is perfectly adequate.364.50
I am not using IE667684.50
Respondents were allowed to choose more than one answer; totals may not add up to 100%



 
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leppie24-Jan-10 18:51
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AnswerWe are living it Pin
WSchalk25-Jan-10 9:47
WSchalk25-Jan-10 9:47 
Jeremy Falcon wrote:
Then you don't do web development much. There are still way too many people using it.


Yeah, like our company. It was just a week or two ago that an email came out warning users from upgrading their IE6 because it would break some business critical applications, most of which were installed just a year or two ago! OMG | :OMG: They warned that it was against company policy to upgrade without I.T. approval and doing so could result in your PC being re-imaged back to the "standard" office PC.

My cube neighbor (fellow developer) and I keep shaking our heads when we get these types of notices. He has IE8 (plus Chrome and FF3.6, which he uses most of the time), while I have IE7 (mostly due to the possible issues) and neither of us has seen any compatibility problems with most of the "version sensitive" software on the list. There are a few things that we don't have access to but the ones we do all have worked fine for us. Poke tongue | ;-P

So for now we continue to code our web apps (intranet use only) and make sure they works properly in IE6 (on a test PC) but also in later versions as well as other the other major browsers. We both get really annoyed with sites/apps that ONLY work properly in IE6 and cannot wait for one of our vendors to come out with a version that will NOT work in IE6 and will force us to upgrade. In the meantime at least we don't have to suffer. Cool | :cool:

-Wayne

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