Do geeks always need something to bitch about? Microsoft is at least making an effort to do as most people wish, getting users to upgrade from IE6.
IE6countdown.com – a wolf in sheep's clothing
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Re: IE6countdown.com – a wolf in sheep's clothing
#12Sooo... 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.
Hey, I don't know if you've noticed the pattern over the past 15 years, but there's always another "obsolete" browser. You can't "win", it's just about the progress. There is no point in the past 15 years where you've been able to just code to the latest beta of your favorite browser and nothing else.
Re: IE6countdown.com – a wolf in sheep's clothing
#13The banner is supposed to be ugly - that way people will notice it and not mistake it for part of your beautiful site.
Re: IE6countdown.com – a wolf in sheep's clothing
#14This 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.
And replace it with what? Companies that will charge 30% of all the money for content that goes through their devices?
Re: IE6countdown.com – a wolf in sheep's clothing
#15This 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.
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Re: IE6countdown.com – a wolf in sheep's clothing
#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Hey, I don't know if you've noticed the pattern over the past 15 years, but there's always another "obsolete" browser. You can't "win", it's just about the progress. There is no point in the past 15 years where you've been able to just code to the latest beta of your favorite browser and nothing else.
Not much progress going from one non-html5-compliant browser to another. It still means everyone's stuck having to support flash and other proprietary plugins. IE9 at least allows us to move forward with modern standards.
Re: IE6countdown.com – a wolf in sheep's clothing
#17This 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.
And replace it with what? Companies that will charge 30% of all the money for content that goes through their devices?
False dichotomy alert!
Getting rid of Microsoft doesn't imply going to Apple. You must realize that there are other entities in this market, frequently offering better products, often for free.
Getting rid of a company that despises fair competition, that promotes bogus standards in order to confuse the market instead of doing something it once did adequately: build products its users want, would be quite good for the market.
But you get some points for writing an answer. It seems others just opted to downvote what they don't like to read.
Re: IE6countdown.com – a wolf in sheep's clothing
#18"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.
I've got no real reason to. XP works fine, and it's secure enough. Java isn't installed, and flash is enabled on a case-by-case basis (I'll probably have this laptop (and XP) for another year or so.
Now, try convincing someone who _doesn't_ know much about computers to upgrade. All these "everyone should upgrade" declarations I keep seeing won't do it.
Re: IE6countdown.com – a wolf in sheep's clothing
#19They're trying to get XP users to upgrade from IE6 to IE8. This is a problem because IE8 is already obsolete.
It would be preferable to encourage people to run pretty much any other browser on XP, because they are all being actively updated with new features.
The point, which doesn't have anything to do with Microsoft-bashing: Don't run this banner on your site.
Re: IE6countdown.com – a wolf in sheep's clothing
#20Ugh, we all know 99% of English-speaking users on IE6 are forced to use it at their workplace. That's going to be so annoying.
Maybe those IE6 Business-users should get their user-agents changed to: "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1) - YES I KNOW IE6 IS OLD, TELL MY BOSS"