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IE6countdown.com – a wolf in sheep's clothing

#1

Post by Isofarro » Fri, Mar 04, 2011, 8:21 PM UTC

IE6countdown.com – a wolf in sheep's clothing
statichtml.com

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#2

Post by reustle » Fri, Mar 04, 2011, 8:31 PM UTC

Microsoft agrees with IE6countdown.com - http://twitter.com/Microsoft/status/43753653189885952

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#3

Post by shii » Fri, Mar 04, 2011, 8:35 PM UTC

reustle wrote: post #2

Microsoft agrees with IE6countdown.com - http://twitter.com/Microsoft/status/43753653189885952

ie6countdown.com is by MSFT...

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#4

Post by mtogo » Fri, Mar 04, 2011, 8:37 PM UTC

This banner is less ugly and has a choice of multiple browsers: http://www.ie6nomore.com/

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#5

Post by rbanffy » Fri, Mar 04, 2011, 8:43 PM UTC

This is why I registered microsoftcountdown.com. It's not the browser the only thing we need to dump - we need to get rid of the whole company.

Re: IE6countdown.com – a wolf in sheep's clothing

#6

Post by cnkt » Fri, Mar 04, 2011, 8:47 PM UTC

Let's say this over and over for years: "Microsoft doesn't want IE6 to die".

When Microsoft creates a web site for killing IE6 let's start saying "it's not enough, microsoft has to die too"

brilliant.

Re: IE6countdown.com – a wolf in sheep's clothing

#7

Post by ghurlman » Fri, Mar 04, 2011, 9:02 PM UTC

Sooo... Microsoft links people to Microsoft's browser. This counts as controversy? Shady behavior? Please.

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#8

Post by walkon » Fri, Mar 04, 2011, 9:06 PM UTC

To some extent, it is a good thing that the warning banner is ugly because it will annoy the users, increasing the chances that they'll do something (i.e. upgrade to a newer browser) to get rid of it.

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#9

Post by mrcharles » Fri, Mar 04, 2011, 9:07 PM UTC

ghurlman wrote: post #7

Sooo... Microsoft links people to Microsoft's browser. This counts as controversy? Shady behavior? Please.

The issue is less that they link to their own browser, and more that the likely outcome is that it will push the adoption of another nearly obsolete browser.

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#10

Post by tommi » Fri, Mar 04, 2011, 9:11 PM UTC

"Given that everyone using IE6 is, at best, running Windows XP, and given that Microsoft have stated that IE9 won't be available for pre-Vista SP2 OSs, the most recent version of Internet Explorer they could ever hope to upgrade to is IE8."

unless they upgrade Windows. Which they should.