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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. 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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  2. 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.