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The Man At Microsoft Charged With Destroying IE6
Barence writes "The man in charge of Internet Explorer has told PC Pro that he's been tasked with destroying IE6. Internet Explorer 6 continues to be the most used browser version in the world at the ripe old age of nine. IE6's position as the default browser in Windows XP means many companies still cling to the browser. 'Part of my job is to get IE6 share down to zero as soon as possible,' said Ryan Gavin, head of the Internet Explorer business group. Microsoft has also been giving further previews of Internet Explorer 9, with demonstrations showing two 720p HD videos running simultaneously on a netbook, thanks to IE9's GPU-accelerated graphics."
Do you want to know why I use a knife? Guns are too quick. You can't backup all the... little emoticons. In... you see, in their last moments, browsers show you who they really are. So in a way, I know IE, Firefox, Mozilla, and Opera better than Ryan Gavin ever did. Would you like to know which of them were crashers?
GPU-accelerated graphics? What a concept!!!
Much simpler solution:
Pay google a meager sum to add some javascript that displays an "upgrade to IE9" link instead of google search for people still running IE6.
Do the same thing on Bing.
Sure, you could get around it with a user-agent switcher - but if you're savvy enough to do that, chances are you're not running IE6...
No, IE6 is the most common web browser, however (and directly because of the former) it is the least popular web browser.
Game! - Where the stick is mightier than the sword!
... or you need to offer IE6 compatibility in the new browser.
Is that what they call brokewards compatibility?
I would be willing to bet that Google search is used FAR more frequently than Youtube at work.... wait... oh.... yeah... good point.
The iTunes updater installing a completely unrelated program is a little different than Windows Update updating a Windows program from one version to another. :P
I noticed your name wasn't Bad Analogy Guy, so I felt it needed to be pointed out.
Can't be that hard to rotate the last character of the product name by 180 degrees.
Did you also moan about a 133mhz MMX system with 32mb of ram not running XP when upgrading from 95?