Only 9.6% of YC News Readers Use IE

[waleedka]

http://selfdebugging.com/2007/10/01/only-96-of-yc-news-readers-use-ie/

[henning]

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

[xzibitendo11 → henning]

agreed

[Xichekolas]

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

[vlad → Xichekolas]

I was about to post the same thing.

[kirubakaran]

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

[waleedka → kirubakaran]

Or, Microsoft employees hitting "Refresh" all day.

With apologies to my MS friends :)

[startupcrazy → kirubakaran]

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

[nickb]

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

[michaelneale → nickb]

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.

[mariorz]

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

[waleedka → mariorz]

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

[mariorz → waleedka]

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.

[karzeem]

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

[waleedka → karzeem]

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

[andreyf → waleedka]

That's probably from a cell phone...

[gaborcselle]

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.

[ptn]

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?

[sammyo]

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

[brlewis]

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

[twism]

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

[imsteve]

...at work?

[xzibitendo11 → imsteve]

that's my deal

[nanijoe]

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

[ptn → nanijoe]

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