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MS — Dropping IE6 Support "Not an Option"
An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft wants to see IE6 gone as much as anyone else, but the company isn't going to make the decision for its users anytime soon. The software giant has been pushing IE6 and IE7 users to move to IE8 ever since it arrived in March 2009, but it's still up to the user to make the final decision to upgrade: 'The engineering point of view on IE6 starts as an operating systems supplier. Dropping support for IE6 is not an option because we committed to supporting the IE included with Windows for the lifespan of the product. We keep our commitments. Many people expect what they originally got with their operating system to keep working whatever release cadence particular subsystems have. As engineers, we want people to upgrade to the latest version. We make it as easy as possible for them to upgrade. Ultimately, the choice to upgrade belongs to the person responsible for the PC.'" Of course some big Web sites aren't waiting for Microsoft. Reader Yamir writes, "Google's Orkut, a social networking service popular in Brazil and India, has started warning IE6 users that the browser will no longer be supported. Just last month, YouTube started showing a similar message."
Apparently kdawson didn't RTFA either?
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It is impossible to finish this sentence logically.
... so many /.ers don't RTFA, that the moderators have decided they don't even need to post a link to the FA!
You can have my 486 running Windows 3.1 when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers! It was good enough for 1994 and it's good enough now!
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My company works with several 3rd party vendors* who are locked into IE6. They haven't even ported their software to IE7, much less 8.
It's horrible. The good news is a couple of those 3rd party vendor programs do work in firefox.
*yeah, yeah. I know. It's a horrible business practice, but the good news for us and them is we're a rabbit's whisker away from dropping them for additional vendors.
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Absolutely, not arguing that :) my friend, almost like you, is still running Win 95 from home; on top of that he's hosting tiny personal web server on that machine. He spends his spare time (for fun) patching and making sure that machine is secure.
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Au contraire!
I and a bunch of us keeping coding to the IE 6 STANDARD and our we use tables for EVERYTHING - we even put FLASH in our tables!!
Our EVIL knows no bounds!
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IE7 + GUI sucks. you bet, I only use IE7 in command line only.
(I know, I know, but I had to)
Oooh! Pick me! Pick me!
Here goes: "I don't want to upgrade from IE6 for one very simple reason: I don't want to install IE6 in the first place."
Do I win?