The biggest obstacle to eliminating IE6 is China.

For a long time, one of the main tasks of the Microsoft IE team was to urge users to abandon IE6 and use a higher version. This work has made great progress on a global scale. According to the latest statistics released by the market research organization NetApplications in November, the global market share of IE6 has dropped to 13.6%.

Despite some achievements, this work is still very arduous. Roger Capriotti, Microsoft's director of product marketing for IE, pointed out that to completely eliminate IE6, Chinese users are the biggest problem. Unless Chinese consumers abandon IE6, it will be very difficult for this old browser to die.

NetApplications data shows that IE6's largest user base is in China with a market share of 45.20%. If you do not speak out of China's IE6 users, IE6's market share is only 7.59%. Capriotti said that his job is to make IE6 market share to 0, and this is a battle destined to victory. A good phenomenon is that Chinese users are constantly giving up IE6. Since August, IE6’s share in China has fallen by more than 5%.

Capriotti summarized the reasons why most Chinese users are obsessed with IE6: "There are many reasons, including piracy, low PC system update rates, etc. In addition, a large number of computers have not started Windows Update." Data show that China's PC system update rate is far Lagged behind the global average. In November, the global market share of Windows XP reached 57.9%, and the share of Windows 7 was 19.7%. In China, the share of Windows XP is 81.8%, and Windows 7 is only 10.3%.