Microsoft’s IE6 Countdown
To the surprise of quite a few of us here in the MadeByPi office, Microsoft released a new website the other day, with the strapline "10 years ago a browser was born. Its name was Internet Explorer 6. Now that we're in 2011, in an era of modern web standards, it's time to say goodbye."
Yes, Microsoft are making the effort to try and get global usage of it's own browser IE6 down to below 1%.
Currently the global usage of IE6 is 12% worldwide - still rather high, but hopefully with this campaign which, developers can also contribute to by using their provided scripts to inform IE6 users to upgrade to the latest versions (IE8/9) we might eventually get there.
For information from the chaps at Microsoft themselves about why they are doing this, check out their blog.
Kudos to Microsoft for trying to get rid of IE6, but forcing people to upgrade their OS to upgrade their browser?
And the banner links to a a page that doesn’t render properly in IE6…
http://screencast.com/t/Zwe1q7SKcN
We use IE6 at work, probably about 1000 users across UK and we can’t upgrade as it is part of standard build. IE6 sucks!