Even Microsoft Wants IE6 Dead

Tarmas writes "Microsoft has launched a website intended to persuade people to upgrade their browsers from Internet Explorer 6. In Microsoft's words: 'This website is dedicated to watching Internet Explorer 6 usage drop to less than 1% worldwide, so more websites can choose to drop support for Internet Explorer 6, saving hours of work for web developers.' About time?" Of course they want you to upgrade to a newer Internet Explorer.

Comments

If only other devs used ie6-upgrade-warning..

[Anonymous Coward]

I've used ie6-upgrade-warning for some of my projects.

It's quite obnoxious, and usually gets the job done.

Re:If only other devs used ie6-upgrade-warning..

[hairyfeet]

The problem is you seem to think the users are going "yay lets use crappy IE6!" when of course that isn't the case, it is the fact that all their Intranet will break since it was coded in crappy IE6 ActiveX and good luck getting the suits to pay to upgrade THAT mess!

But there is a good reason why IE6 usage jumps from 9AM to 5PM Mon through Fri, and that is because millions of dollars worth of corporate Intranet apps are written around IE6. Was it stupid? Of course. Do most places have the budget to replace it? Not in this economy they don't.

But if you want o run off the business users that's cool with me, free market and all that. But don't pretend there are millions of consumers running crappy old IE6 just for the fun of it.

Re:If only other devs used ie6-upgrade-warning..

[Shikaku]

Wow, that's annoying.

So are driveby infections because people still use IE6.

And the botnets/spam it creates. Pick your poison.

Re:If only other devs used ie6-upgrade-warning..

[compro01]

Chrome does all that just fine. Google is serious about wanting their browser on the business desktop.

http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/chromebrowser.html

I'll switch

[camperdave]

I'll switch as soon as the update.microsoft.com website will let me. It keeps throwing 0x8DDD0004 errors.

Re:I'll switch

[TrancePhreak]

http://forums.techarena.in/windows-update/451062.htm

Five seconds on Google.

Re:Beware of what you wish for.

[neokushan]

IE9 is beta (Release Candidate is still more "beta" than "final"), so you wished to use beta software by installing it in the first place. You could have just used IE8 and had no problems, then upgraded to IE9 when IE9 is ready.

Re:I'm a web developer and I don't like this

[Pieroxy]

I am working for a big e-commerce website (think several hundred million euros of yearly revenue) and we are actually putting up a banner for IE6 users. We still test it for now but don't spend time on design. Most websites in France are moving in this direction.

Now, when I won't have to worry about it at all, I'll celebrate a second time !

MS KB914224

[DigiShaman]

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/914224. In short, stop two services. Windows Update and Background Intelligent Transfer. Next, delete the entire folder called "SoftwareDistribution" located under the root of C:\Windows. Restart both services and try again.

BTW, that folder you deleted will regenerate after starting these services. Don't worry about it.