14 DAY TRIAL // You might be thinking that a browser which is almost 12 years old is no longer the best choice for those looking to surf the Internet securely, but it turns out that more people actually deploy Internet Explorer 6.
While it’s hard to imagine how come someone could use Internet Explorer 6 to browse the Internet these days, figures provided by market researcher Net Applications for the month of October show that Microsoft’s ancient browser has actually increased its market share in the latest 30 days.
IE6 is now installed on 4.93 percent of computers worldwide, up from 4.87 percent the month before. Don’t forget that IE6 is set to be retired next year in April together with Windows XP.
For the sake of comparison, Internet Explorer 10, the default browser available in Windows 8, has lost users last month, dropping from 19.43 percent to 18.94 percent. Of course, the reason is that more people are making the move to Windows 8.1, but again, it’s hard to understand how come that IE6 lives on in a market so full of modern browsers.