A fresh report coming from Duo Security, the company that Cisco acquired last year for a whopping $2.35B in cash, seems to suggest that Edge users “forget” the most to update their browser.
Edge users are running outdated versions
The security company details in their finding the following: “at the time of our data collection, we found that Edge is the most frequently out-of-date browser (73 percent) on end user devices, while Internet Explorer was the most frequently up to date (2 percent out of date)“. This is perhaps the first study where Internet Explorer beats Edge at something. But the reason for that could be quite simple – the users perceive Edge as something new, and they don’t believe it needs updates. On the other hand, IE is known for being a massive security floodgate. The study goes on to say the following: Firefox is the biggest winner here, falling from 2018’s most frequently out-of-date browser with 93 percent to fourth place this year at 18 percent. Chrome also became less frequently out of date, shrinking from 53 percent in 2018 to 15 percent in 2019. It’s worth pointing out that both browsers are using auto-updates to ensure they’re running the latest version
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