How many CUK users are still on IE6?

[NickFitz]

After all the kerfuffle over the once-new vBulletin theme having such poor support for Internet Explorer 6, which was still in fairly wide use in corporate environments a couple of years ago, I was wondering what proportion of people were still stuck with it now. Poll to follow; your answer should reflect the lowest-level browser you use, but I'll make it multiple-choice anyway.

If admin wants to post figures from the server logs, we can work out how many people lie

Edit: I've assumed non-IE users use the latest version, as most browsers tend to either prompt one to install updates or update themselves by default. If you stick with an older version on purpose, feel free to explain why in the comments. Or, indeed, not to explain why. It's your computer, so you can do whatever you like. There's no reason why you should feel coerced into justifying your decisions. I was just interested, that's all. Jeez, I'm sorry I asked now. Calm down already. Lynx is fine, I use it myself when I'm pretending to be blind. Yes, it's a great way of testing accessibility. Just answer the question. OK, don't. Whatever.

[wim121]

I use FF on linux and opera on win systems. However I still use IE6 for testing websites I edit/create, as many still use it.

I wrote a complaint email to MS calling them blithering idiots for their website IEcountdown a while back. Many people, especially in businesses use IE6 as some applications are developed to use the rendering it it and wont work properly in other browsers.

They seem to think that no-one possibly could possibly be using older OS's, programs or even hardware. MS can seem to fathom that many machines still run on win98 and serve a useful purpose. The whole IEcountdown website seems to think people still use IE6 purely because they havent thought about upgrading.

[eek]

After all the kerfuffle over the once-new vBulletin theme having such poor support for Internet Explorer 6, which was still in fairly wide use in corporate environments a couple of years ago, I was wondering what proportion of people were still stuck with it now. Poll to follow; your answer should reflect the lowest-level browser you use, but I'll make it multiple-choice anyway.

If admin wants to post figures from the server logs, we can work out how many people lie

Edit: I've assumed non-IE users use the latest version, as most browsers tend to either prompt one to install updates or update themselves by default. If you stick with an older version on purpose, feel free to explain why in the comments. Or, indeed, not to explain why. It's your computer, so you can do whatever you like. There's no reason why you should feel coerced into justifying your decisions. I was just interested, that's all. Jeez, I'm sorry I asked now. Calm down already. Lynx is fine, I use it myself when I'm pretending to be blind. Yes, it's a great way of testing accessibility. Just answer the question. OK, don't. Whatever.

I think all my end clients have finally moved from IE6. That is not to say that ie8 is any better (its not).

[Scrag Meister]

ClientCo moved off IE6 just before Christmas.

I really hated the way that different IE8 seesion sync with each other, which is a pain when you have 2 subsites from a common site open in 2 windows. They kept becoming the same page.

Have found the -nomerge commandline flag now so its working better.

At home I use FireFox.

[Lockhouse]

Chrome on all my kit, IE8 on client's. The client moved off IE6 about 4-5 months ago.

[SimonMac]

Netscape

[eek]

If we are playing silly games I do use NCSA Mosaic once in a while. I have a windows 3.11 virtual machine for it when I want to score silly point scoring games.

[fullyautomatix]

Not used it since 1998

[jmo21]

Finished an NHS contract back in September, they were still on IE6, as were the 2 other public sector agencies we were working with.

[Platypus]

Client switched to FF several months ago, but retains IE (upgraded from 6 to 8 recently) for certain CRM apps.