Are you included among the 12 percent of people from around the world who are still using Internet Explorer 6? Although browser statistics of visitors to Security Garden indicate only 2.6 percent use IE 6, it is long past time for those visitors to update.I understand that not everyone has the latest and greatest computer. These are hard times and we all need to watch our budget. However, there have been numerous advances in IE since version 6 was introduced ten years ago. Forget the pretty-pretty new features. Most significant, from my point of view, are the enhanced security features in the newer versions of Internet Explorer.
Granted, IE9 is not compatible with Windows XP. However, you can still upgrade to IE8. IE8 has significant built-in security features, including SmartScreen, Cross Site Scripting (XSS) Filter, Click-jacking prevention, Data Execution Prevention, InPrivate Browsing, and InPrivate Filtering. (See Internet Explorer 8: Features/ for information about these security and safety features.) For those who would rather upgrade in stages, if need be, you can start with IE7 (download link below) and then follow up with IE8.
Although most of the Security Garden visitors are from the United States, United Kingdom and Canada, people from all around the world find their way here. If you are represented by the list of actual Security Garden visitors in the list of countries below, and are also included among the 2.66 percent of my visitors who use IE6, please update today!
Security Garden visitors from around the world:
| Australia | Barbados | Belgium |
Brazil | Brunei Darussalam | Bulgaria |
Canada | Chile | Croatia |
Czech Republic | Denmark | Dominican Republic |
Finland | France | Germany |
Greece | Hong Kong | Hungary |
India | Indonesia | Iraq |
Ireland | Italy | Japan |
Korea, Republic Of | Libyan Arab Jamahiriya | Lithuania |
Macedonia | Malaysia | Mexico |
Netherlands | New Zealand | Norway |
Pakistan | Peru | Philippines |
Poland | Puerto Rico | Romania |
Russian Federation | Serbia | Singapore |
South Africa | Spain | Sri Lanka |
Sweden | Switzerland | Taiwan |
United Kingdom | United States | Venezuela |
Vietnam |
Don't be one of these statistics:
References:
- Windows Internet Explorer 8: Compare versions
- Counting Down Internet Explorer 6 Usage Share
- IE6 Countdown
- Get Internet Explorer 7
- Internet Explorer 8: Worldwide sites
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I recently tried upgrading from IE7 to IE8. It DEVASTATED my computer, rendering it all but unusable! Thank goodness I backup everything. I'd urge extreme caution. As for IE9, what good is anything that's not compatable with XP?
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ReplyDeleteHi, Buffet. I'm sorry to hear about the problems you had. Although, you should have been able to uninstall IE8.
ReplyDeleteAs to IE9, a time comes when backward support just cannot continue. There have been too many changes made to Windows Vista and then Windows 7.
I know people who were angry with manufacturers of third-party hardware who chose not to update the drivers for Windows Vista. They probably could have but elected not to so those who wanted to use their product would purchase new.