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Only 9.6% of YC News Readers Use IE

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I think Windows could be over-represented in that data because people might visit from work, where they're forced to use Windows.

agreed

Accounting for the 9.6%:

1. 3.0% - IE at day job

2. 3.0% - Modified User Agent string

3. 3.0% - IE Tab in FF

4. 0.6% - Just for the irony of it

Or, Microsoft employees hitting "Refresh" all day.

With apologies to my MS friends :)

How about... installed for testing and occasionally accidentally used during breaks.

I know I accidentally loaded YC News with IETab a couple times (have it installed in Firefox for browser testing). So those stats are definitely inflated... chuckles

I was about to post the same thing.

Thanks for the stats! Very interesting indeed. Most people here are technology trend-setters and are influencers. Usually, you can forecast what people will use in the next few years by looking at what "alpha geeks" use today (Tim O'Reilly's term).

http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail716.html

I am not so sure. I still think in 5 years time Windows will be the dominant desktop/client platform (yet the "alpha geeks" generally avoid it).

I hope that isn't the case, but I know that it is just hope.

I've got ff 75% vs ie 13% vs safari 7%, my app isn't specifically directed at hackers.

http://www.marioromero.org/browserstats.png

site(app) http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=2354684299

Interesting. Although, I would guess that among Google Reader users, a very high percentage are tech oriented people.

indeed, I'm not sure and I don't remember the exact number but I think that in that leaked? google reader video, the browser stats for their users were mentioned and ff was at the top.

I'd be interested to know what percentage are using IE 7 vs. IE 6.

It was 52.8% for IE7 and 46.6% for IE6. And there was one single user still using IE 4.01 !!!

That's probably from a cell phone...

Guilty as charged. I was a Vista early adopter (need it for dogfooding at work), and back when Firefox was doggedly slow in Vista, I went with IE and never switched back. IE7 isn't too bad.

I realize making Firefox slow on Vista was probably not a deliberate marketing decision by Microsoft, but it certainly worked on me.

I'm currently using a laptop with Windows XP, because it isn't mine - if it were, it would have some Linux distro. But I do run a virtual machine with Ubuntu installed. Do I count as Linux or Windows?

I use IE... once a week to submit my time to a lame corporate outsourced timesheet.

Most of the clients claiming to be IE were probably email address harvesting spiders.

I'm one of the 9.6%... On the iPhone now though

...at work?

that's my deal

I use IE, not really sure what the 'hateration' is for since firefox is constantly freezing.

Maybe you like being spied on, but most people don't.

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