Yes, this browser that is the bane of web designers will finally be going away !!
http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/...-to-IE7_1.html

It's not going away. What the article forgot to mention is Windows 2000 and its predecessors (Millenium, 98 and even 95). The update isn't available there, and there are still a large percentage of machines that will have to use the older version.

Yah.. and too bad for them too.. the larger majority of USER's machines will be using IE6 less and less.

This be true...but I'm not going to harp on someone because of that. There isn't anything inherently wrong with Windows 2000 as an OS, other than that this upgrade isn't available.

ME, 98, 95...okay, I can understand that. But Win2K was always okay.

I never had any real gripes with Win2K either.

Originally Posted by LadynRed

Yah.. and too bad for them too.. the larger majority of USER's machines will be using IE6 less and less.

I agree, and thanks for the information.

Be that as it may, a lot of schools and state/local government agencies will still be using IE6 for awhile yet; they are far slower to upgrade.

tim

Windows 2000 was the first truly stable O/S of theirs, at least since DOS and Windows for workgroups 3.11. It was the first one with unicode throughout the internals, and I think the first consumer operating system based on NT. It had role-based user security, and the run as feature Vista touted. It was really a huge step beyond everything in Microsoft land that came before it. But it feels a little primitive when I have to use it this day in age.

I'll have to start watching my site logs and see whether/how the IE 6 traffic tapers off.

Is this with all operating systems??

Originally Posted by ForrestCroce

Windows 2000 was the first truly stable O/S of theirs, at least since DOS and Windows for workgroups 3.11. It was the first one with unicode throughout the internals, and I think the first consumer operating system based on NT. It had role-based user security, and the run as feature Vista touted. It was really a huge step beyond everything in Microsoft land that came before it. But it feels a little primitive when I have to use it this day in age.

So you don't strip out all the XP/Vistaesque graphics and animations and run your box based on best performance?

That's all I've ever done, only I tweaked the colors somewhat and have a cool blue/silver grey scheme going on.

That's great news. While it obviously won't just remove IE6 overnight, it'll speed up the disappearance of this old buggy browser and bring people more up-to-date with IE7. Microsoft is finally making some progress.

Originally Posted by ADAM Web Design

So you don't strip out all the XP/Vistaesque graphics and animations and run your box based on best performance?

I gave it a shot, but there's no perceptible difference. They say they've ported all the gui stuff to the video card, and I've got a dedicated nvidea, so it makes sense that the bells and whistles wouldn't slow things down.

Originally Posted by whym

That's great news. While it obviously won't just remove IE6 overnight, it'll speed up the disappearance of this old buggy browser and bring people more up-to-date with IE7. Microsoft is finally making some progress.

You mean insensible thirst for more money to fill up the bottomless packets of M$

Even car companies conntinue to build and sell parts for 20 - 30 years old cars and I don't think that Mr. Gates get broke if his Empire continue to support more than 80% of existing IE6 market.


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Originally Posted by fastreplies

You mean insensible thirst for more money to fill up the bottomless packets of M$

Even car companies conntinue to build and sell parts for 20 - 30 years old cars and I don't think that Mr. Gates get broke if his Empire continue to support more than 80% of existing IE6 market.


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I don't like Microsoft's business practices much, but I don't really care if this makes Microsoft more money - that's irrelevant.

Most web designers/developers including myself will be happy to see the back of IE6 for good - the move towards standards compliant browsers is a good thing

i just like firefox

They are already working on IE8.
It's supposed to be fully standards compliant.
Hmm.. we'll see.

This is wonderful f**cking news!!!

Originally Posted by Dash-2

They are already working on IE8.
It's supposed to be fully standards compliant.
Hmm.. we'll see.

It has passed the ACID2 standards compliance test, so it should be fairly standards compliant. However, the issue here is that it will register with sites as being IE and these sites will expect it to be quite buggy so send back a bug-fixing CSS file or whatever and it will mess up the rendering of the site.

As far as functionality, I actually like IE6 better than version 7.
But design wise, too many bugs

IE 7 has many bugs in it
which need to b rectified asap or else ppl better switch back to IE 6