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Discussion on: Why do people/companies still use Internet Explorer?

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tovare • Edited

I think IE 11 is an industry-wide pain since it hasn't kept up to date in recent years, also, Microsoft's pledge to support it for the lifetime of Windows 10.

I recently surveyed 500 E11 users with a poll asking if they had other options, and I found that most users had a different browser already, about 7% borrowed a computer from a friend and 7% was locked in by their IT-department. I did have 20% in other reasons (which I didn´t explore, but I think since I exemplified such as Chrome/Edge/Firefox some users of other browsers like Opera might have selected that option. some in others had windows 8.1 but many with windows 10)

So, I think the answer for IE11 traffic is: Mostly happenstance and old computers. It will give some users some pain if you drop it completely.

The IE11-users was single out by triggering hotjar with

<script language="javascript">
if (window.msCrypto) {
    hj('trigger', 'ie11')
}
</scriipt>
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Mehmood

Nice survey!