FYI, Phone-line speed connections are far and away the most dominant
now. That's not expect to changes for the next 10 years, when it's
predicted they'll drop to 49% of all net connections (they'll still be
the most numerous type of connection, though). Cable and DSL are really
small slices of the total market now.

-----Original Message-----
From: bacano [mailto:bacanoesoterica.pt]
Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2001 3:53 AM
To: webappsecsecurityfocus.com
Subject: Re: Thought you would find these stats interesting ....

I think that Windows users just prefer IE. The 15Mb download problem, is
still a problem for any Windows user who what's to have the latest IE
upgrade/version.
For example, if my Windows came by default with IE 5.0, to upgrade to
5.5
and then to 6.0 that 15(-20)Mb upgrade was needed 2 times.
Also, 56kb connection may be is not the standard anymore, with so many
cable
and DSL users, so big d/l's are not the problem they use to be.

[ ]'s bacano

----- Original Message -----
From: "Barry Suskind" <pr1mosyahoo.com>
To: <webappsecsecurityfocus.com>
Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 5:15 PM
Subject: Re: Thought you would find these stats interesting ....

> Not suprising at all.
>
> 1. Since Win95 OSR2, IE has come standard. Netscape you have to go
> get.
>
> 2. How many people will tolerate a 15MB download over a 56kb
> connection?
>
> 3. Since AOL bought Netscape, many of their developers left. It was
> far too long for Netscape 6.0 to come out, when it finally did, it
> was a buggy mess. Took another bunch of time before Netscape 6.x was
> usable.
>
> 4. Now, almost 4 years later, it is sort of "what's netscape"?
>
> 5. Many of the people that did have Netscape, and it was probably
> 4.x, have all replaced their systems (about a 3 year life span). Once
> you get a new system, it has a browser so why bother getting another
> one (see number 2)?
>
> 6. IE 5.0 worked better than Netscape 4.x did. Even people that don't
> like Microsoft and used Netscape as a statement for not being for the
> evil empire wained in the frustration of using a browser that had
> issues.
>
> Is there anything I am missing?
>
>
>
>
>
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> ---
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abacus
rods.....
>
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