Microsoft Says.. Death To Old Internet Exploders !

[cbelt3]

http://windowsteamblog.com/ie/b/ie/archi...ows-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.)

[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.

[mikebw]

Take a cue from Apple, and kill off old ideas and technologies faster than most people are comfortable with.

[JoeH]

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.

[blooz]

I've heard that IE6 is down to 5% market share. Good riddance.

[macphanatic]

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.

[AllGold]

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...

[Filliam H. Muffman]

"We will start in January for customers idiots in Australia and Brazil who have turned on automatic updating via Windows Update."

The two reasons I have automatic update off are: because of IE9, and that they push out crap before it is ready.

[Speedy]

I still use IE5 for the Mac weekly.

[mikebw]

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?