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Microsoft Says.. Death To Old Internet Exploders ! - cbelt3 - 12-15-2011
http://windowsteamblog.com/ie/b/ie/archive/2011/12/15/ie-to-start-automatic-upgrades-across-windows-xp-windows-vista-and-windows-7.aspx
Nice. And our corporation is still dependent, for some applications, on IE6. Expect a LOT of pushback, Monkeyboy !
(Why, do you say ? Because M$'s development tool migration path SUCKS.)
Re: Microsoft Says.. Death To Old Internet Exploders ! - mattkime - 12-15-2011
IE6 is not dying fast enough. and i'm not sure this will do enough to help.
PS, cbelt, bad tech choices are not MS's fault.
Re: Microsoft Says.. Death To Old Internet Exploders ! - mikebw - 12-15-2011
Take a cue from Apple, and kill off old ideas and technologies faster than most people are comfortable with.
Re: Microsoft Says.. Death To Old Internet Exploders ! - JoeH - 12-15-2011
mattkime wrote:
IE6 is not dying fast enough. and i'm not sure this will do enough to help.
PS, cbelt, bad tech choices are not MS's fault.
Well, in this case they are partly MS's fault. Their lack of compatibility between versions of IE has many older software that interfaces with it stuck using an older version to work right. Some applications have had to completely redo their display interfaces to work right with newer versions of IE, that level of code rewrite has not always been cost effective to justify.
Re: Microsoft Says.. Death To Old Internet Exploders ! - blooz - 12-15-2011
I've heard that IE6 is down to 5% market share. Good riddance.
Re: Microsoft Says.. Death To Old Internet Exploders ! - macphanatic - 12-15-2011
JoeH wrote:
[quote=mattkime]
IE6 is not dying fast enough. and i'm not sure this will do enough to help.
PS, cbelt, bad tech choices are not MS's fault.
Well, in this case they are partly MS's fault. Their lack of compatibility between versions of IE has many older software that interfaces with it stuck using an older version to work right. Some applications have had to completely redo their display interfaces to work right with newer versions of IE, that level of code rewrite has not always been cost effective to justify.
Maybe when they rewrite the code, they'll take the opportunity to make the code browser independent.
Re: Microsoft Says.. Death To Old Internet Exploders ! - AllGold - 12-15-2011
macphanatic wrote:
Maybe when they rewrite the code, they'll take the opportunity to make the code browser independent.
My, aren't you the optimist! :jest:
That would be nice but it's doubtful. It's why we have all the problems we have now: lazy, incompetent, MS-koolaid-drinking programmers.
BTW, for IE 9, the list of incompatibilities seems to be endless. Probably for the same reason: lazy, incompetent...
Re: Microsoft Says.. Death To Old Internet Exploders ! - Filliam H. Muffman - 12-15-2011
"We will start in January for
The two reasons I have automatic update off are: because of IE9, and that they push out crap before it is ready.
Re: Microsoft Says.. Death To Old Internet Exploders ! - Speedy - 12-16-2011
I still use IE5 for the Mac weekly.
Re: Microsoft Says.. Death To Old Internet Exploders ! - mikebw - 12-16-2011
Speedy wrote:
I still use IE5 for the Mac weekly.
Are you going for some world record on the longest continuous user of a crappy browser?