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Those who see this as a move somehow "against Microsoft" should realize that nothing would please Microsoft better than to no longer have to support IE6.
by compay 17y ago
Those who see this as a move somehow "against Microsoft" should realize that nothing would please Microsoft better than to no longer have to support IE6.
- umjames 17y agoSo why doesn't Microsoft just announce that they will no longer be supporting IE6? What are the companies who have IE6-only applications going to do? They'll have to upgrade or consciously continue to use an obsolete browser. Did they sign contracts with businesses that state they'll support IE6 forever or something? Microsoft employees may hate supporting IE6, but someone in charge there doesn't mind it so much.
- acg 17y agoSo why doesn't Microsoft just announce that they will no longer be supporting IE6? They have, it's the same as XP's (8 April 2014). You answer your own question: products as widespread as IE6 cannot just be withdrawn overnight. It's quite a sensible move have the end-of-life the same as XP, when the corporate desktop moves from XP there IE6 will effectively be dead. Microsoft would like this to happen earlier I understand: it has to cost them money to maintain so much code.
- compay 17y agosomeone in charge there doesn't mind it so much Maybe, but it's costing them money that could otherwise be saved. Somebody up top would probably like to see that change too.