ROME - Explorer 6, a browser die hard. Despite the years, now ten, and physical problems, updates continuously treated by trying to plug the gap wider, IE6 is still used by 12% of Internet users in the world, data collected in February 2011. Although a decrease of 9% compared to 2010, are still too many according to Microsoft, which to settle Explorer 6 and the workload and grit he brings with him, the initiative launches web ie6countdown.
com /. A site that counts down to the lack of the departure Explorer 6, monitor the spread of the elderly and tenacious browser in the world, with one aim: to arrive, with every lawful means, up to 1% of users worldwide. A threshold that would allow the disposal of official support for the product, three generations back.
IE666. Explorer 6 was founded in 2001, and probably for a pact with the devil, survives to this day, surpassing the expectation of life. The largest concentration of people in China, 5.9% of the overall 12% is there. In the rest of the world there is a 4.5% absolute, in Italy the figure is 3.3% relative.
Hundred people in our country more than a third still use ancient browser. With the various impacts on the security and browsing experience, although in all probability it is installing on old computers still in use. Microsoft certainly has a vested interest in spreading Explorer 9, the latest arrival in the family, and push to change the operating system, from older versions of Windows products to date.
But it is also true that the architecture of Explorer 6 is antediluvian and the Network is in need of more advanced tools to be used at best. It 'also true that 9 Explorer does not work with Windows XP, still one of the most popular operating systems in the world. For this reason, Microsoft recommends the site migration "at least" to Explorer 8, according to the company a good compromise between age and safety features.
Especially for companies that use the old browser on computers a few years ago, are still operating. They are in fact different people using Explorer 6 on a computer at work, because they have the ability to switch browsers. How to make the case. The Battle of Microsoft is quite evolved tactically.
Use social networks to invite the world to abandon IE6, with Ie6countdown # hashtags on Twitter, invites owners of a site to publish a banner calling for the demise of the ancient navigator. Provides tables and the 'case study' to understand why the migration to Explorer 8 is advantageous, even for those who develop Web sites and must continue to optimize them for a browser older than ten years.
Against every rule of planned obsolescence, the survival of IE6 is amazing in a world where the browser version climb several times a year. I am in fact coming Firefox 4, but maybe 5, 6 and 7 by 2011, and at least as many versions of Google Chrome. A romantic but more sustainable resistance against the clock on the web that runs much faster than that of humans. 
com /. A site that counts down to the lack of the departure Explorer 6, monitor the spread of the elderly and tenacious browser in the world, with one aim: to arrive, with every lawful means, up to 1% of users worldwide. A threshold that would allow the disposal of official support for the product, three generations back.
IE666. Explorer 6 was founded in 2001, and probably for a pact with the devil, survives to this day, surpassing the expectation of life. The largest concentration of people in China, 5.9% of the overall 12% is there. In the rest of the world there is a 4.5% absolute, in Italy the figure is 3.3% relative.
Hundred people in our country more than a third still use ancient browser. With the various impacts on the security and browsing experience, although in all probability it is installing on old computers still in use. Microsoft certainly has a vested interest in spreading Explorer 9, the latest arrival in the family, and push to change the operating system, from older versions of Windows products to date.
But it is also true that the architecture of Explorer 6 is antediluvian and the Network is in need of more advanced tools to be used at best. It 'also true that 9 Explorer does not work with Windows XP, still one of the most popular operating systems in the world. For this reason, Microsoft recommends the site migration "at least" to Explorer 8, according to the company a good compromise between age and safety features.
Especially for companies that use the old browser on computers a few years ago, are still operating. They are in fact different people using Explorer 6 on a computer at work, because they have the ability to switch browsers. How to make the case. The Battle of Microsoft is quite evolved tactically.
Use social networks to invite the world to abandon IE6, with Ie6countdown # hashtags on Twitter, invites owners of a site to publish a banner calling for the demise of the ancient navigator. Provides tables and the 'case study' to understand why the migration to Explorer 8 is advantageous, even for those who develop Web sites and must continue to optimize them for a browser older than ten years.
Against every rule of planned obsolescence, the survival of IE6 is amazing in a world where the browser version climb several times a year. I am in fact coming Firefox 4, but maybe 5, 6 and 7 by 2011, and at least as many versions of Google Chrome. A romantic but more sustainable resistance against the clock on the web that runs much faster than that of humans.
- Microsoft Says Stop Using Internet Explorer 6 (08/03/2011)
- The Internet Explorer 6 Countdown - Moving the world off Internet Explorer 6 (04/03/2011)
- Countdown to the end of Internet Explorer 6 (05/03/2011)
- Microsoft Wants People to Stop Using Internet Explorer 6 (06/03/2011)
- Tech News : IE6 Countdown (06/03/2011)
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