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Microsoft backs long life for IE6
- makecheck 17y agoMicrosoft isn't going to kill something that indirectly keeps businesses on Windows. However, businesses that "can't justify" upgrading their software are kidding themselves. It's not even a software problem...maybe no one educated them about the realities of hardware failure. When your PCs start dying, that's a heck of a time to figure out that you can't even buy something that will run your carefully-unmaintained business software.
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- wglb 17y agoWell, if you are a very large company with say 40,000 seats and you have many internally developed applications that target IE6, there is a legacy that is justifiably expensive to replace. So it is also dependent on their very large customers.
- andreyf 17y agoIt would be funny if this turned out to have a silver lining - if co-installing IE8 and IE6 is too tricky, so they might go down the route of IE6/Chrome, esp. if Google were to offer support for enterprise customers.
- stcredzero 17y agoI wonder if Google could cook up some sort of IE6 support? (Or just open IE6 as an ActiveX in Chrome browser tabs?)
- manvsmachine 17y agoyou can't even buy something that will run your carefully-unmaintained business software If only making the argument was that easy; sadly, IE6 will survive as long as Microsoft still supports XP. I foresee IT departments blowing away Win7 installs left and right to install their prebuilt system images with XP / IE6. Unfortunately, support really is the deciding factor.
- Batsu 17y agoThere are comments in a thread from yesterday that seem relevant to this thread as well. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=759881 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=759881