Why would you be running IE 5.5?
I have asked google, why run IE 5.5 and I get a list of sites dating back to 2001 and earlier. But I don’t get an actual reason as to why anyone would run it today.
Being a non-Windows person (have win98 and XP on Virtual PC for testing only) and somewhat computer literate, I often marvel at the lack of updates people apply to their machines be it OS X or Windows 98. After running Windows Update on my VPC win98 install it defaults to install IE 6… so I can only assume that those who are using IE 5.5 are doing so on machines that are not secure just from the lack of updating.
Upon checking with W3 Schools stats page I am relieved to see IE 5 down to 5% but somewhat alarmed that win95, the only windows system that can’t run IE 6 (I think), is at 0.1%. So that means there could be 4.9% of web users definately not updating windows? or maybe some of that are IE 5.1 OS X users?
As an OS X exclusive member (no perks) of the computing public I must have the wrong idea. Why would you keep IE 5.5 around?