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Microsoft finally kills Internet Explorer 6, in the U.S.
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article published on 3 January, 2012
Microsoft has celebrated the death of Internet Explorer 6 in the U.S. with a cake frosted with the phrase, "Goodbye IE6!"
The software giant has made it a priority to kill off the decade-old browser, and it appears they have finally succeeded, at least in the U.S. Microsoft says that only 0.9 percent of users were running IE6, as of the new year.
Microsoft used data from Net Applications, ... [ read the full article ]
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xnonsuchx
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3. January 2012 @ 19:36 |
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Now if they'd just kill off all their newer, shoddy browsers! ;-)
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patrick_
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4. January 2012 @ 04:01 |
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IE9 would be OK if it wasn't for their lousy HTML5/CSS3 support.
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kalidus8
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4. January 2012 @ 10:23 |
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The security in IE is horrible. Not once on any PC have I used IE safe. Even with "enable 3rd party ext." disabled in the properties. Trojans and toolbars always find a way. I dont care waht anyone says, tool bars are trojans. thats how they know how many people are running which browser.
Free stuff are good stuff,sometimes better.
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SProdigy
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4. January 2012 @ 15:01 |
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Good riddance! And somehow I STILL find someone using IE6 or IE7. People aren't aware of updates and those pirated versions of XP refuse to update to SP3, which included the IE7 update.
I've long since stopped developing with IE6 in mind. Now if only we could do something about IE8 being heavily used since that's the last version XP users could update to.
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dab0ne
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5. January 2012 @ 07:17 |
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only 0.9 percent of people in the US are running IE6 because only 1% of all people in the US use IE.
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Gameman
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5. January 2012 @ 23:47 |
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I use IE 8 and never intend to switch. It's user friendly and fast. I've downloaded and tried Firefox (too similar to bother changing and as far as I'm concerned Chrome sucks period (couldn't find faves, etc). Strictly IE for me.
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AfterDawn Addict
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7. January 2012 @ 22:32 |
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What was the last version of IE that allowed the use of Outlook Express for e-mail?
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GrandpaBruce - Vietnam Vet - 1970 - 1971
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Gameman
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8. January 2012 @ 12:14 |
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I don't know and don't care. I use AOL for my email. I find it the best for organizing my stuff and it allows you to email the largest file sizes to people. It also has a fantastic spam filter (hardly ever get any and the spam folder for found items is huge. Definitely prefer it to Gmail and Hotfile.
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8. January 2012 @ 15:36 |
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just did a reinstall of xp on comp and couldnt imagine how slow and buggy ie 6 was.not to mention all the web sites that dont work well with it.it only stays long enough to download ff.
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ddp
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8. January 2012 @ 16:15 |
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GrandpaBW, it is not the ie that determines outlook express but the windows which is xp that is last to use outlook express.
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AfterDawn Addict
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12. January 2012 @ 22:12 |
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Originally posted by ddp:
GrandpaBW, it is not the ie that determines outlook express but the windows which is xp that is last to use outlook express.
Thanks, ddp. I haven't dropped into this portion of the forums for awhile, so I missed your reply.
Life is good!
GrandpaBruce - Vietnam Vet - 1970 - 1971
Computer: Intel Core i7-920 Nehalim;Asus P6T Deluxe V2
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ddp
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12. January 2012 @ 22:20 |
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no problem.
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