On 23:37 Tue 28 Apr , Dan Kegel wrote: > Also, looking at the raw data, it looks like ~10% of users > are just not into updating at all, they're running wildly old > browsers (like Firefox 2.x or Firefox 3.0.0). > Perhaps these folks are on dialup connections, > and can't do online updates because they're too slow?
Here's an interesting anecdote: I just visited a science lab that was still running Firefox 1. The potential of any significant change to bring down critical equipment was too great. Even more excitingly, the other browser option was Netscape Communicator 4, so Firefox 1 was the "new" software. I wonder how many of the non-upgrading users don't even have the choice of upgrading, for reasons similar to the above or perhaps because of an unhelpful IT "department" (which could just be a friend, as Mike suggested). My parents have dialup, and it is not a blocker to updating systems. A 56K connection gets you a 10MB update in ~25 minutes. If there's more to download than that, you just let it go overnight. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com
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