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by night-rider 1460 days ago
As the old meme goes: Internet Explorer was the first step to downloading Chrome or Firefox on a new computer.
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some-guy 1459 days ago
The large enterprise outfit I work for has 8% IE11 usage still, almost all of which is in Korea. Our customers there go out of their way to not use Edge on their machines.
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kriro 1459 days ago
The question is why? I want to put on my tin foil hat and speculate about Korean knowledge of Edge 0-days (maybe North Korea is known to hoard those for some reason) but then again if you have edge 0-days it's probably trivial to get IE11 ones.
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Mixtape 1459 days ago
The answer is that a lot of companies and services in Korea require ActiveX, thereby making IE the de facto option for a majority of their users.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_compatibility_issues_in_...

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binbag 1460 days ago
Only after they were released. Many users used IE daily. It was fine until we had better options.
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