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#1 scaramonga

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Posted 06 March 2010 - 02:37 AM

images/news/ie.jpgInternet users from all around gathered today to finally lay Internet Explorer 6 to rest, in it’s very own funeral. IE6 (support) was officially killed on March 1, 2010, almost 8.5 years after it’s initial release. IE6 supporters attended the funeral, even with a special gift from the Internet Explorer team themselves, flowers.

Many websites have already begun shutting down support for IE6, including Google, which says it will no longer support the browser on both Gmail and YouTube, but users can still enjoy streaming content.

Internet Explorer 6 still has roughly 20% market share among businesses and consumers, who still use Windows XP, still one of the most popular operating systems to date. The birth of Internet Explorer 6 originated from Windows XP, which a lot of businesses still use, after skipping the Windows Vista upgrade.

Microsoft also sent a card along with the flowers to the funeral of IE6, that said “Thanks for the good times IE6, see you all @ MIX when we show a little piece of IE Heaven.”

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LOL!! WTF??


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Posted 07 March 2010 - 03:07 AM

Crazy Americans :(

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Posted 07 March 2010 - 03:16 AM

View PostDavid_Heavey, on Mar 6 2010, 07:07 PM, said:

Crazy Americans :(
yeah, about the size of it, really...

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Posted 13 March 2010 - 01:57 PM

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Internet Explorer 6 still has roughly 20% market share among businesses and consumers, who still use Windows XP

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Crazy Americans

Considering its age all those IE6 security issues... I agree.

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Millions here also share of that craziness. Other day I went to a friend's house and the guy was running XP with no SP and IE6.




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