Google to Stop Supporting Internet Explorer 6
It's about darn time: Google has joined the ranks of tech companies relegating Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 to the archive tapes of history.
In a post to its official enterprise blog, Internet giant Google has announced it will begin phasing out support for Microsoft’s nearly decade-old Internet Explorer 6 Web browser. Beginning March 1, IE6 users will start to find Google’s Web based applications and services—starting with Google Docs and Google Sites—will stop working well with Internet Explore 6. Eventually, IE6 won’t be able to use the services at all.
“The web has evolved in the last ten years, from simple text pages to rich, interactive applications including video and voice. Unfortunately, very old browsers cannot run many of these new features effectively,” Google Apps senior product manager Rajen Sheth wrote in the post. “Many other companies have already stopped supporting older browsers like Internet Explorer 6.0 as well as browsers that are not supported by their own manufacturers.”
Officially, Google will continue to support Internet Explorer 7+ (including IE8), Firefox 3.0+, Google Chrome 4.0+, and Apple Safari 3.0+.
Internet Explorer 6 has long been a thorn in the side of Web developers and application designers: although the application sported many new features when it debuted with Windows XP nine years ago, the browser’s well-known bugs and maddeningly incomplete, inconsistent, and often incorrect support for Web standards has forced many developers to specifically create retrograde services explicitly for IE6. And despite the fact that the more-standards-compliant IE7 and IE8 have been available for some time, Internet Explorer 6 is still on of the most widely used browsers on the Internet: according to StatCounter, IE6 still accounts for more than 13 percent of worldwide Web usage; other metrics firms put IE6’s share even higher.
Google isn’t alone in dropping IE6: when Apple launched its MobileMe service it raised eyebrows by never supporting IE6 in the first place; similarly, Microsoft itself won’t be supporting IE6 in its own Office Web applications. Microsoft has been encouraging Windows users to update to IE7 and IE8, but doesn’t plan to force anyone to do anything: Microsoft officially intends to support IE6 through early 2014.
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By: Guest
February 1, 2010 @ 4:19 PM
Finally, a big voice telling IE6 it can go straight to hell. Officially.
By: Guest
February 1, 2010 @ 4:19 PM
Finally, a big voice telling IE6 it can go straight to hell. Officially.
By: Guest
February 1, 2010 @ 4:19 PM
Finally, a big voice telling IE6 it can go straight to hell. Officially.
By: Ian Bell
February 1, 2010 @ 4:58 PM
IE 6 was such a nightmare. I still have problems with IE8 but at least it seems to render pages correctly.
By: Ian Bell
February 1, 2010 @ 4:58 PM
IE 6 was such a nightmare. I still have problems with IE8 but at least it seems to render pages correctly.
By: Ian Bell
February 1, 2010 @ 4:58 PM
IE 6 was such a nightmare. I still have problems with IE8 but at least it seems to render pages correctly.
By: Fashion Boutique
February 1, 2010 @ 6:10 PM
IE6 is very old. It is time to move on.. Use firefox.. dump IE > bin.
Germany has advised its citizens not to use IE.
http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/16/germany-advi...
By: Fashion Boutique
February 1, 2010 @ 6:10 PM
IE6 is very old. It is time to move on.. Use firefox.. dump IE > bin.
Germany has advised its citizens not to use IE.
http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/16/germany-advi...
By: Fashion Boutique
February 1, 2010 @ 6:10 PM
IE6 is very old. It is time to move on.. Use firefox.. dump IE > bin.
Germany has advised its citizens not to use IE.
http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/16/germany-advi...
By: Craig
February 2, 2010 @ 6:50 AM
Ding dong, the witch is dead!
By: Craig
February 2, 2010 @ 6:50 AM
Ding dong, the witch is dead!
By: Craig
February 2, 2010 @ 6:50 AM
Ding dong, the witch is dead!
By: dang
February 2, 2010 @ 9:01 AM
Hahaha, no kidding! Having Google do this is huge, but now if we could get more and more companies declare the same.
By: dang
February 2, 2010 @ 9:01 AM
Hahaha, no kidding! Having Google do this is huge, but now if we could get more and more companies declare the same.
By: dang
February 2, 2010 @ 9:01 AM
Hahaha, no kidding! Having Google do this is huge, but now if we could get more and more companies declare the same.
By: Omar Cisneros
February 3, 2010 @ 12:08 AM
AT LAST!!!!! Go to hell IE6!
By: Omar Cisneros
February 3, 2010 @ 12:08 AM
AT LAST!!!!! Go to hell IE6!
By: Omar Cisneros
February 3, 2010 @ 12:08 AM
AT LAST!!!!! Go to hell IE6!
By: Myke Black
February 3, 2010 @ 3:21 AM
This is just another nail in the coffin of IE6. Facebook, youtube and microsoft all want IE6 to curl up in a corner and die, maybe we should make all ISPs ban connections from IE6 machines, that would make them change!
By: Myke Black
February 3, 2010 @ 3:21 AM
This is just another nail in the coffin of IE6. Facebook, youtube and microsoft all want IE6 to curl up in a corner and die, maybe we should make all ISPs ban connections from IE6 machines, that would make them change!
By: Myke Black
February 3, 2010 @ 3:21 AM
This is just another nail in the coffin of IE6. Facebook, youtube and microsoft all want IE6 to curl up in a corner and die, maybe we should make all ISPs ban connections from IE6 machines, that would make them change!
By: allan
March 1, 2010 @ 3:32 AM
It was about time they do this…god bless you Google.
By: John
July 1, 2010 @ 9:14 PM
IE6 IS THE BEST OF THE IE SERIES!!
IE7,8 and 9 are over bloated pieces of crap that dont look anywhere near as good,etc…….
By: Rsot
July 9, 2010 @ 11:56 PM
Wanna R.I.P. IE6 ? Go on – Join Facebook group here:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=13920039610...