On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 9:57 AM, Chris McMahon <cmcma...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 5:21 AM, Arun Ganesh <arun.plane...@gmail.com>wrote: > > 6% of wikimedia project page views are from IE6/7 - because of the >> following: >> - IE6 ships default with XP >> - Legal users with SP2+ can upgrade to IE8 >> - If you have 90s era hardware, no SP for you. Can only be solved by buying >> some new hardware (or switching to linux) >> - IT admins who dont know much about IT and have kept the workforce hostage >> through their ignorance. Can be solved if the workforce and boss demands >> it. > > > I'd like to reframe these examples. > > First, as I understand it, most IE6/IE7 users globally are running pirated > versions of Windows. For financial or political reasons, they will not or > can not acquire legal versions and thus can't upgrade their browsers.
No, I'm pretty sure that's not true at all. Even if they are running a pirated version they can still update their browsers. -- John _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
