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I'd like to know how much the IE numbers would fall if they excluded China. Unfortunately, I'd need to pay money to get that data from their source.

http://www.netmarketshare.com/browser-market-share.aspx?qpri...

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Yep, China is a huge driver for IE6. Microsoft has the data you want: http://www.ie6countdown.com/

From the linked article:

"IE6 unfortunately somehow managed to gain 0.30 percentage points. Web developers can’t wait for it to fall below 5 percent, and then continue to drop, but it seems to be holding on for dear life."

Either China is still deploying new Windows XP instances (the last Windows that defaulted to IE6), or ...

As mtgx observes: "There's no way Chrome still has only 18% market share, which is even lower than Firefox." The numbers just don't make sense to me.

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