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IE6 Usage Drops Around the World, Goes Below 1% in the US

Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) continues to lose significant market share all around the world, a reason to rejoice for Microsoft, which is eager to see it gone for good. The web browser is old and unreliable and Microsoft has long been promoting newer flavors of the application to determine users to leave it behind. ...

4 January 2012
04:56 GMT

Google Drops IE6 from AdWords Support

Google has announced that it's dropping support for Internet Explorer 6 within AdWords. Before you get too excited, or too worried, this applies to the AdWords dashboard, not the ads themselves, these will continue to run on IE6 for the foreseeable future."By the end of this year, advertisers accessing the AdWor...

27 October 2011
13:51 GMT

Microsoft: Thank you, WordPress for Dumping IE6 Support

Microsoft said a big thank you to Wordpress for the decision to dump support for Internet Explorer 6 announced on May 19th, 2011. The Redmond company is one of the driving forces pushing the transition away from IE6 and onto more recent browser releases, preferably IE8 or IE9, as far as the software giant is concern...

24 May 2011
10:01 GMT

Microsoft Wants Internet Explorer 6 to Die As Much as Anyone Else

Ten years after it came into service, Internet Explorer 6 is still used by a lot more people than it should at this point. There have been several efforts to determine those still using it to upgrade and now even Microsoft is joining the 'fight.'The giant has launched ie6countdown.com which aims to track us...

7 March 2011
02:40 GMT

Countdown to Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) Extinction

10 years ago a browser was born, and now it’s time for it to come full circle. Microsoft has launched a new online experience designed to monitor the countdown to the near-extinction of Internet Explorer 6. Near-extinction for the software giant is equivalent with getting IE6 usage worldwide to under 1%, a rea...

5 March 2011
16:51 GMT

Moving from IE6 to IE8 in Windows 7 Virtual Roundtable

Guidance and resources are available to customers looking to kick off the aging Internet Explorer 6 browser in favor of the latest release of IE. An illustrative example in this regard, is the upcoming Springboard Series Virtual Roundtable titled Migrating from Windows Internet Explorer 6 on Windows XP to Internet E...

6 September 2010
07:15 GMT

Facebook Chat to Get a Revamp, Drop Support for IE6

The Facebook Chat feature is undergoing a revamp. One of the most popular tools on the site, the app has been getting a number of fixes and upgrades for the past couple of weeks and is about to get even bigger updates in the coming weeks. "We've already made progress, and we're taking some more big steps in...

26 August 2010
09:58 GMT

UK Government Prefers Firewalls Over Internet Explorer Upgrade

The UK government announced that it will stick with using Internet Explorer 6 on its networks for now. It doesn't see any security benefit in upgrading to a more modern browser and plans to repel any attacks with firewalls and anti-malware solutions. Following the Aurora attacks against Google and 33 other large...

30 July 2010
12:02 GMT

Google Reader Revamps Comments, Drops Support for IE6, Gears

Google Reader is already the world’s most popular feed reader, but it’s still getting better, or at least evolving, all the time. In a latest round of updates, Reader gets a revamped and simplified comment system. However, it also dumps support for legacy browsers and, unfortunately for some, for Google G...

25 May 2010
04:02 GMT

IE6 Kept Alive by Corporate Users

Internet Explorer 6 is not getting all that much love these days, what with even Microsoft sending flowers to a mock-funeral event, and the General Manager of IE expressing regrets that representatives from the company were unable to attend. But there are those with a deep loyalty for the decade-old browser, and they...

27 April 2010
11:47 GMT

YouTube Says 'Bye Bye' to Internet Explorer 6 on March 13

A clear stance to encourage people and companies to upgrade their browsers is long overdue and, while many websites and services, big and small, have indicated that they won't be supporting outdated browsers, specifically Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, for too long, it is only recently that things have begun to ...

24 February 2010
06:57 GMT

Microsoft: Dump IE6, Upgrade to IE8

Believe or not, but Microsoft is right in line with companies and governmental organizations that advice Internet Explorer 6 users to dump the decade-old browser. In fact, the Redmond company has always labored to convince customers to embrace the latest iterations of its products, and with the latest move the softwa...

3 February 2010
10:33 GMT

How Long IE6 Has to Live

Well, here's another anti-IE6 (Internet Explorer 6) article to go with the 254,000 I found on Google recently. While many of IE6's detractors are web designers or web developers, we can certainly put on the board some greater flaws in Microsoft's browser than the extra amount of working hours put by pr...

4 December 2009
11:08 GMT

Belgian Government Workers Ordered to Drop Firefox and Return to IE6

The government of the Walloon Region has ordered its local administrations to ban the use of Firefox on their networks, beginning today. It seems that the reasons are related to security and compatibility concerns and the recommended browser is Internet Explorer 6.The eight-year-old Internet Explorer 6 represents aro...

28 September 2009
10:04 GMT

IE6 Will Be Kept Alive Despite IE8

Microsoft will not follow in the footsteps of Mozilla, which traditionally kills off support for a certain Firefox browser within six months after the release of the succeeding iteration of the open-source browser. Instead, the Redmond company has indicated a strong commitment to keep Internet Explorer 6 alive despit...

11 August 2009
07:07 GMT

YouTube to Drop Support for Internet Explorer 6

Hot on the trail of social link aggregator Digg, YouTube may also be dropping support for the aging Internet Explorer 6 browser. While there is no official date – there isn't any official comment at all actually – users who still have to work with IE 6 are getting a message suggesting they should upd...

15 July 2009
04:47 GMT

Digg May Drop Support for Internet Explorer 6

With the recent “browser wars” pushing the market forward after many years of stagnation, the once ubiquitous Internet Explorer 6 has seen a steady decline in users falling under the 10 percent mark in some cases. Sparked by increased competition, especially from Mozilla's Firefox, Microsoft launched...

11 July 2009
06:37 GMT

Microsoft Introduces Internet Explorer 6

Microsoft is currently offering the Beta 2 bits for Internet Explorer 8, with a release-to-manufacture date reportedly slated for the end of this month. Yet, it was Internet Explorer 6 that moved to center stage on November 11, a version that was not connected to the Windows client and server operating systems. The R...

12 November 2008
15:01 GMT


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