We polled our very distributed employee base to see what people are 
using. The stats were interesting (though not really surprising to 
me.)

Win 95 18%
Win 98 33%
Win ME 1%
Win NT 21%
Win 2K 23%
Win XP 4%

CD Writer 31%
DVD drive 16%

Web browser:
None 2%
IE 4 2%
IE 5 59%
IE 6 31%
NS 4 5%
NS 6 1%

These are for 531 reporting Windows computers.

I work at a University Extension. We have offices at the State level 
as well as in 72 counties. Many counties have virtually no budget for 
computers and have to cling to what they have for years.

With that said, our sites are made to be compatible with Netscape 4. 
We aren't always pretty, but we almost always work. Of course, we are 
targeting a broad public who are often not tech-savvy. Low income 
families, small farms, etc. If our target market of customers were 
people who were higher income or tech oriented, then we would have 
more leeway to drop older browsers and do nifty new stuff.

Also, when we are doing web application development we put on 
slightly different hats than web information. Applications have 
platform requirements. Information doesn't.
-- 

Kevin Graeme

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