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From what I've heard it's going to be around till the 10 year mark. Basically MS is contractually obligated to support IE6 until 10 years after XP first shipped
by ojbyrne 18y ago
From what I've heard it's going to be around till the 10 year mark. Basically MS is contractually obligated to support IE6 until 10 years after XP first shipped. Basically when it's shipped as part of an OS, it's required to be supported, and the problem is lots of corporate IT managers won't let it be upgraded.
- StrawberryFrog 18y agoMS Support for 10 years mean that they will issue patches to critical bugs, exploits and so on for 10 years. However, IE6's support lifespan will not mean that it gets new CCS, Javascript, HTML 5 or ACID compliance features. IE 8 is the official fix for that. It does not mean that people should use IE6, or that MS will encourage people to use it. It does not mean that IE6 will necessarily will be "around" in the sense of having a significant browser market share. Default browser on a fresh install of XP, yes, unless an "XP reloaded edition" comes out.
- briansmith 18y agoThe "compatibliity view" feature of IE8 is Microsoft's solution to this problem. Now they can meet their contractual obligations for compatibility with IE7 through IE8 and future versions. They don't have to continue supporting IE7 like they do IE6, because they will eventually be able to put even security bug fixes into IE8 (and later) and require an IE7->IE8 upgrade to get them.