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Funeral for IE6
worker201:
http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/03/04/ie6.funeral/index.html?eref=igoogle_cnn
--- Quote ---Internet Explorer Six, resident of the interwebs for over 8 years, died the morning of March 1, 2010 in Mountain View, California, as a result of a workplace injury sustained at the headquarters of Google, Inc.
--- End quote ---
Aloone_Jonez:
A bit premature?
MS are going to keep supporting IE6 for another four years.:(
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8196242.stm
worker201:
That's too bad for MS and their customers, then, because Google has already ceased support for IE6, and other major developers have plans to do so as well. According to the article, IE6 is still the most popular browser on the internet, but most of its users are corporate clients who have their intranets and other local network services tied to specific IE functionality. Really, it's unbelievable how much infrastructure in corporate and public sector IT is custom-built on technology that died 5-10 years ago.
Aloone_Jonez:
I've never understood why MS didn't release IE 7 for Windows 2000?
No ones going to buy XP, just for IE 7, MS are only hurting themselves because the Windows 2000 users who are fed up with IE 6 will just switch to Firefox or Opera.
MS should release IE 9 for XP, if they don't, they'll just loose more users to other browsers.
bedouin:
If I even test a website in IE I just use whatever version happens to be installed. I'm guessing it's 7 in Vista? IE only websites are very rare nowadays though, and that's great.
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