Comments on: Firefox 3 advancing, but IE6 not going away…

By: Tony

Tony — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 06:36:38 +0000

A very important and obvious fact that I think has been missed is that a copy of XP is not required for users of people stuck with Windows 2000 if you are upgrading from IE 6 to another browser that is not IE, including Firefox (or Opera, or Safari, or whatever tickles you).

For Firefox, there’s also the IE Tab extension which will save most of those sites that don’t work without IE.

By: Meshach

Meshach — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:32:03 +0000

Let’s hope that with the release of Windows 7 there will be a decrease in IE6 users.

By: SeanJA

SeanJA — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:47:55 +0000

I will repeat my comment on dzone here:

When Microsoft finally stops supporting the ancient lumbering beast that is XP, IE6 will finally die… alas, this will not happen for a while…

By: Pepe

Pepe — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 08:37:16 +0000

Reason that IE 6 is still around is that certain companies are still have intranets developed for IE 6 and upgrading would brake the existing solutions.

Other companies (that I worked for) are stuck with Windows 2000 and Microsoft does not provide any newer version of IE for them.

By: Jose Fernandez

Jose Fernandez — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 08:30:46 +0000

W3Schools only reports hits on their own website, not the world at large. Net Applications has more accurate stats.

There are three reasons IE users don’t upgrade, none of which are what you postulated:

1) Corporate environments can be several versions behind and users are not allowed to upgrade IE.

2) Upgrading from IE6 requires a legal copy of Windows XP/Vista (or a hacked Windows Genuine Authentication). People who don’t have a legal license can’t upgrade, and those who can don’t always bother

3) People keep supporting it. I say pull the plug and watch it die.