Senin, 07 Maret 2011

Microsoft Starts Countdown to Internet Explorer 6

Microsoft has put online a site to move away from the ten-year old Internet Explorer 6 users to move to. It bears the title " Internet Explorer 6 Countdown "and shows a world map with the current number of users of the outdated browser.

Microsoft hopes that the global use of IE6 soon fall below one percent, so that more websites to give up support for IE6 and Web developers can thus save several hours work. According to the state from February currently employ twelve percent of the 2001's browser.

Especially in Asia, he is still popular: China is an installation rate of 34.5 percent worldwide in the lead, followed by South Korea (24.8 percent), India (12.3 percent), Saudi Arabia and Taiwan ( 10.7 percent each). In Germany, the use is 2.9 percent.

The countdown website contains links to tools for companies that are still on IE6 hold at present because they have developed applications internal, the not to current standards-compliant browser presuppose. Gartner analysts had in November 2010 indicated that a change to A more modern version of Internet Explorer is either expensive or problems bring licensing law. Up to 40 percent of the companies proprietary browser applications did not work properly in IE 8, says the report.

Microsoft is still not tired of constantly improving the security of IE 8 to point out. His successor, IE 9 is already in the wings: Since 10 February there is a release candidate .

In Australia, Microsoft had been in May 2010 to advertise his own product . "They were nine years old not to drink milk - why use a nine-year-old browsers, it was then called on a campaign to corresponding website.

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