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Since that time, Microsoft has released two major updates to IE and is already hard at work on version 9, and the computing heavyweight has decided it's time to start pushing users to upgrade. The first part of this major marketing push for IE8 is a video (below) touting its security and safety features. Microsoft has even capitulated that IE6 is holding back the Internet. Ryan Servatius, senior product manager for Internet Explorer, told CNET that, "The best thing a user can do to advance the Web is to help move people off IE6."
As Windows 7 spreads, IE6 will be replaced by IE8, which is packaged by default with the new OS. But there will be some roadblocks to adoption. Many of the lingering IE6 users are enterprise and business clients who use internal Web pages and applications that were designed specifically to work with 6 and will need to be rewritten for 8.
In the end however, no one will be shedding a tear over the end of the road for the browser that has been the bane of many a Web developer's existence. [From: CNET, via: Download Squad]
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Subscribe to commentsthanila01Dec 2nd 2009 1:02PM
omg....this is the biggest lie i have heard for quite some time, it's like telling a cat it can fly....
JasonDec 2nd 2009 1:31PM
Yea! And I very much believe it is still very popular. We get a bunch of support calls about IE6 and our CRM. aitendant was not developed with IE 6 in mind but its hard to tell someone to switch or upgrade their browser. We wrote a quick blurb on this while back and it is located at http://www.aitendant.com/support/?p=184. Good to see Microsoft taking some of the weight off.
William CrabtreeDec 2nd 2009 5:29PM
Your assumption about corporate entities is correct.
The State of Ohio's default browser is IE6. I assume other state's default to whatever is default on the OS. Unfortunately I can see that trend continuing with budgets hurting nationwide and IT support being cut. Our agency has not had a full time IT person in about 2 years.
Interestingly, I downloaded Opera to my desktop as a security and ease of use measure and I got reamed royally for doing it. Same with using any utilities other than what was given to me (ie - defrag, spyware, etc).