[NeRo]

Even Microsoft want to see the back of IE6 - http://www.theie6countdown.com/

Hip Hip .... not quite hooray yet though

[j05hr]

I don't get why they can't just force you to upgrade like when a new version of software comes out for example MSN and it makes you upgrade and it gives you an update button and a cancel button so either you upgrade or you don't use it.

Why can't they do this for IE?

[roothost]

Would make my life easier lol

Nice find by the way

This post has been edited by theboss: 05 March 2011 - 12:06 PM

[AlecIsh]

j05hr, on 05 March 2011 - 12:00 PM, said:

I don't get why they can't just force you to upgrade like when a new version of software comes out for example MSN and it makes you upgrade and it gives you an update button and a cancel button so either you upgrade or you don't use it.

Why can't they do this for IE?

I'm not to sure myself, but maybe they did not write something it the programmes make-up that checks to see if its the newest version.

Like MSN, as soon as you launch it, it connects to Microsoft to validate its the newest.

[sarah3585]

The main bulk of IE 6 users are people at work who cannot update their browser without the IT department doing it or they are using that government software that has IE6 build in and can't be upgraded.

I think we'll definatly see IE6 die off for home users. The machines must be about 10 years old now without upgrading the browser.

I hope Microsoft employ a more agressive upgrade system in the future, like chrome so that IE9 doesn't become the new IE6 in 10 years time.

[NeRo]

@jo5hr - I think the problem with a forced update is that a lot of businesses use IE and that some of the sites/tools they use are not compatible with later versions.

I know from personal experience of using an IE/ASP based CMS to update pages for an organization - I caused mayhem by using using IE8 when they were still tied into IE7

[henbast]

Yep. Partly business IT policy and partly legacy systems built on top of it. There's a surprisingly huge number of critical business systems running through IE6 with ActiveX mods and whatever. Half of East Asia used activex for internet banking until recently (SSL being illegal).