IE6 was released in August 2007, shortly after the completion of Windows XP. In April 2009 Microsft stopped mainstream support for XP and withit support for IE6.
IE6 is by far the most hated browser in the world, on the 4th of March Microsft took a stand to show all of us that its listening and created a website www.theie6countdown.com
Currently the IE6 is used by 12% of the browser market. Microsft are hopping to drop this to 1%. Help Evolvenet help Microsft by sharing this post to everyone you know. Upgrade to IE7 or IE8 or even better Firefox. lol
Finally we web developers can stop spending hours of coding time trying to insure your website is compatible.
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User Comments (24)
| marioestrada on March 4, 2011 1:07 PM |
If you’re on IE6 or IE7 do us all a favor and download Chrome or Firefox, please  Reply | Quote |
| lurker101 on March 4, 2011 1:55 PM |
marioestrada said:
If you’re on IE6 or IE7 do us all a favour and delete your system32 folder |
| mattfrompa on March 4, 2011 1:56 PM |
lurker101 said:
marioestrada said:
If you’re on IE6 or IE7 do us all a favor and delete your system32 folder |
| catburst on March 4, 2011 2:31 PM |
or operaReply | Quote |
| ahmed90 on March 4, 2011 2:56 PM |
well as a web designer / master thy should kill both IE6 and IE7 to make our life waaay easier Reply | Quote |
| Guest on March 4, 2011 3:07 PM |
IE6 is my third choice for browser, just after Opera 10.63 and Firefox 3.6.3 and I don’t have plans to update to the versions 7 or 8. Obviously I am a happy user of XP.Reply | Quote |
| Guest on March 4, 2011 3:10 PM |
This we can call: “The XP Conspiracy” Reply | Quote |
| Guest on March 4, 2011 3:17 PM |
IE6 was and is a great product!… Ten years and still keeps working!… The same that Windows XP.Reply | Quote |
| Guest on March 4, 2011 3:21 PM |
The countdown will take a long time! Reply | Quote |
| TrekExpert on March 4, 2011 3:41 PM |
Mozilla or Google should have a countdown for people to get off Internet Explorer altogether. After all, friends don’t let friends use Internet Explorer.Reply | Quote |
| jwdR1 on March 4, 2011 4:37 PM |
This makes me want to reinstall just to see if I can help make the number go up! Reply | Quote |
| w3b0n on March 4, 2011 4:43 PM |
TrekExpert said:
Mozilla or Google should have a countdown for people to get off Internet Explorer altogether. After all, friends don’t let friends use Internet Explorer. |
| lawfer on March 4, 2011 4:45 PM |
lurker101 said:
marioestrada said:
If you’re on IE6 or IE7 do us all a favour and delete your system32 folder fix’d |
| SNGX1275 on March 4, 2011 4:48 PM |
IE6 is my third choice for browser, just after Opera 10.63 and Firefox 3.6.3 and I don’t have plans to update to the versions 7 or 8. Obviously I am a happy user of XP.
Does Opera 11 require Vista or 7? I doubt it would, so if it doesn’t, why 10.63?Reply | Quote |
| Guest on March 4, 2011 9:47 PM |
Opera’s the best!Reply | Quote |
| Route44 on March 4, 2011 9:55 PM |
On both my XP machines I cannot in any way upgrade to IE 8 because neither PCs will connect once I install it. I have to revert back to 7. Why? I haven’t a clue. Both machines predominantly use Firefox but if I want to continue to receive XP updates I need IE.Reply | Quote |
| lurker101 on March 4, 2011 11:21 PM |
That’s a problem with your rigs, not XP. My XP64 connects just fine with both x86 and x64 variants of IE8.Reply | Quote |
| nismo91 on March 5, 2011 12:48 AM |
On both my XP machines I cannot in any way upgrade to IE 8 because neither PCs will connect once I install it. I have to revert back to 7. Why? I haven’t a clue. Both machines predominantly use Firefox but if I want to continue to receive XP updates I need IE.
have you tried into IE9 RC? the moment IE7 was launched I immediately installed it (from Beta 2 to RC2 and finally the final version). by that time i’ve already used firefox, but i cannot even stand having IE6 as my backup browser.Reply | Quote |
| derwynr on March 5, 2011 6:07 AM |
Have been using IE9 in both beta and RC and loving both. for me the offerings like Opera, Chrome and Firefox just dont cut the musterd, and oh yes I’ve tried them all.Reply | Quote |
| Route44 on March 5, 2011 10:41 AM |
Yeah, I realize it probably is with my rigs but I am not sweating it considering they run quite well.
As for IE9, I could be mistaking but I thought MS said it would not be compatible with XP. Someone with greater knowledge help me out.Reply | Quote |
| lurker101 on March 5, 2011 12:31 PM |
There’s a good chance that, just like Windows Live Messenger and Microsoft Security Essentials, it’ll run just fine on all versions of XP, Vista and Win7, but the installer will prevent you from installing on XP64Reply | Quote |
| Lokalaskurar on March 5, 2011 4:24 PM |
Gotta love this statement from Eduard Johnson, NSRR:
“For all of those who has not seen a fully-functional HTML5-website with the truly beautiful CSS3 implemented: you’re rather unfortunate – download Chrome, Safari and/or Opera, and experience the full beauty of the World Wide Web” |
| Guest on March 6, 2011 5:23 AM |
IE9 FTW!!
Apart from give me a downloads shortcut icon plx microsoft |
| fpsgamerJR62 on March 6, 2011 5:28 AM |
Short of having a mission-critical application that runs only on IE6, I can’t think of any reason why anyone would still be using that antiquated browser. I very seldom run IE8 and only to connect to Windows Update.Reply | Quote |
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