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Funeral Being Held Today For IE6

Posted by samzenpus on from the good-riddance dept.

An anonymous reader writes "More than 100 people, many of them dressed in black, are expected to gather around a coffin Thursday to say goodbye to an old friend. The deceased? Internet Explorer 6. The aging Web browser, survived by its descendants Internet Explorer 7 and Internet Explorer 8, is being eulogized at a tongue-in-cheek 'funeral' hosted by Aten Design Group, a design firm in Denver, Colorado."

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  1. What about the 30% of people still using it? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    This ceremony is all well and good, but of course it doesn't change the reality that approximately 30% of all web users still use IE6, either out of ignorance or because the company they work for doesn't allow any other browser...

    In some countries, especially Korea and Japan, usage still hovers around 75%. IE6 has better support for the languages used there than its successors, and significantly better support tha even Firefox, Opera, Chrome and Safari offer.

    1. Re:What about the 30% of people still using it? by mini+me · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Why would the traffic drop? IE6 is still quite capable of rendering any webpage in some capacity. This is like saying your Lynx traffic will drop off by adding an image to the website. Just because some elements of the site look funny in IE6 to you, doesn't mean that the end user cares; especially someone still using IE6.

  2. Re:Wishful thinking by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    What belief is involved? It works just fine for our in house software. Hundreds use it everyday.

  3. Read this on CNN by mattwrock · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Ordinarily, I wouldn't post this http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/03/04/ie6.funeral/index.html?hpt=T2, but the comments from non-techies are eye opening. They believe it's a "ploy" from Microsoft to get you to upgrade to Windows 7. You can pry IE 6 from their cold dead hands. IE 6 unfortunately, isn't dying anytime soon.

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    "Ones and zeros were everywhere. I even think I saw a two!" - Bender
  4. Friendsters, Microsofties, Redditors, lend me .... by Snowhare · · Score: 3, Interesting

    your ears;

    I come to bury IE6, not to praise it.
    The evil that Microsoft does lives after it;
    The good is oft interred with their code;
    So let it be with IE6, The noble Stallman
    Hath told you IE6 was ambitious:
    If it were so, it was a grievous fault;
    And grievously hath IE6 answer'd it.
    Here, under leave of Ballmer and the rest, -
    For IE6 is an honorable browser;
    So are they all, all honorable browsers, -
    Come I to speak in IE6's funeral.
    It was my friend, faithful and just to me:
    But Stallman says he was ambitious;
    And Stallman is an honorable man.

  5. Re:My company supports zombies! by Drethon · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Not only do they probably support zombies but they are probably digging up more bodies and making new configurations (like my company). Could we please start developing for something newer than IE6? IE7 at least has tabs...

  6. ALSO: Novell Netware support ends Sunday March 8th by mosel-saar-ruwer · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Note to NetWare users: General Support is Coming to an End
    2 March 2010 - 5:11pm
    novell.com

    This will come as no surprise, since they've been talking about it for awhile. On March 7, 2010, NetWare will end its phase of general support. Extended support will be available between March 8, 2010 and March 7, 2012. For three years after that, until March 7, 2015, customers may utilize Novell's self-support resources...

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