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Google Tells Users To Drop IE6

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the my-mom-still-won't-do-it dept.

Kelly writes "Google is now urging Gmail users to drop Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) in favor of Firefox or Chrome. Google recently removed Firefox from the Google Pack bundle, replaced it with Chrome, then added a direct download link for Chrome on Google and YouTube. Google's decision to list IE6 as an unsupported Gmail browser does not affect just consumers: Tens of thousands of small- and mid-sized businesses that run Google Apps hosted services may dump IE6 as well. What's especially interesting is the fact that Mozilla is picking up two out of three browser users that Microsoft surrenders."

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  1. Re:Makes sense by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Unlike Firefox, IE7 doesn't support Win2k.

  2. Re:Makes sense by Trashman · · Score: 5, Informative

    FYI, Chrome is unsupported on Win2k as well.

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  3. Re:Makes sense by David+Gerard · · Score: 5, Informative

    Working on it!

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  4. Re:Makes sense by shutdown+-p+now · · Score: 4, Informative

    Lots of software is Leopard-only because Leopard added a bunch of new libraries. Microsoft doesn't tend to add new libraries (except DX10 -- and people screamed bloody murder when it added that), which is why so little software is Vista-only.

    Huh? There is a lot of new libraries and APIs in Vista apart from DX10. A new audio stack, new printing subsystem (both have support for legacy APIs, of course, but also totally new APIs enabling new features), kernel transaction manager, etc.

  5. Re:Brand of... by TaoPhoenix · · Score: 4, Informative

    Protect yourself from typos in MS Word! Use LaTex!

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  6. Re:Makes sense by petermgreen · · Score: 4, Informative

    Among other things win2k brought WDM to the NT line. WDM added support for plug and play and allowed hardware vendors to develop a single driver for both 98/ME and 2K (and XP and for the most part vista too).

    And decent directx support (afaict NT 4 had some support for directx but it was pretty crappy).

    And USB support (afaict there was some third party stuff for NT 4 but few devices worked with it)

    2K combined many of the important features of the 9x line (plug and play, wide hardware support, directx) with the stability and ability to handle large numbers of apps open at once.

    2K to XP was a fairly minor change and that means if you are supporting XP then unless you use some really exotic apis your app or driver will most likely work just as well under 2K.

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