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Secunia: Less that 2% of Windows PCs fully patched

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ThePrairiePrankster Updated - 4th Dec 2008

In my organization, for reasons that are not 100% clear to me, we only support IE6. So in our case, 100% would be out of compliance. Even though roughly 50% of our end users use the latest version of FireFox 3.x and seem to prefer that to IE6. The reasons we don't support IE7 is due to compatibility with "home grown apps" that use a web browser and IE7 breaks those apps, for reasons that are not obvious to me. The weird thing is, the apps work better in Firefox 3.x than they do in IE6. These are legacy applications such as a time card system that is rather ancient, some old AS400 apps that we use a browser to access and some of our internal web sites that are "old school". While I understand IE6 has issues, if every other product has been fully patched and updated, except for the IE6 issues, are we really all that insecure?

Just wonderin'.... wink