Posts Tagged ‘Internet Explorer’
Internet Explorer 6 lives until 2014
I know this is old news, but I felt like I needed to post this information. It seems that Microsoft has extended support for Internet Explorer 6 until 8th April 2014, despite campaigns to kill off IE6. If you have a look on IE Blog it states that the upgrades to newer versions are the responsibilities of the end user or the company.
The engineering point of view on IE6 starts as an operating systems supplier. Dropping support for IE6 is not an option because we committed to supporting the IE included with Windows for the lifespan of the product. We keep our commitments. Many people expect what they originally got with their operating system to keep working whatever release cadence particular subsystems have.
Microsoft has extended their support for Windows XP until 2014 and Internet Explorer 6 was supplied with Windows XP, so there will still be updates for another 5 years.
Tags: Internet Explorer, Microsoft
Internet Explorer 6 Blocker
There has been some issues with my blog and viewing it with Internet Explorer 6 (mainly the lightbox effect) and since Internet Explorer 6 is 8 years old I felt it was time that people should be upgrading their web browsers to atleast Internet Explorer 7.
Tags: Apple Safari, Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Opera
Force which browser to use?
Just recently I got a suggestion via Skribit to stop forcing you, the reader to use a certain web browser. Now with out being rude, I am not forcing you to use any web browser.
For those that don’t know what I am talking about, I have a bar across the top of my page when visiting the site in Internet Explorer. The bar simply states:
Please, stop using Internet Explorer as a browser. It’s slow, unsecure and doesn’t render web pages correctly. You may download free and better browser like Mozilla Firefox or Opera. Close.
Now, I am not forcing you to switch browsers, if you look closely there is also a Close link at the end of the sentence, so it removes the recommendation. Maybe if I had the site redirect to a page that said “LOL, your using Internet Explorer, FAIL”, there would be a reason to make a suggestion.
I just am recommending an alternative web browser to use, at the end of the day it’s your choice what web browser you would like to use.
Tags: Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera, Skribit
SPAM is getting smarter, or people are more stupid
I just got the following email, from admin@microsoft.com with the subject Internet Explorer 7. Now the contents of this email seems legit, but is totally fake.
Download the latest version!
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Please do NOT click on the link to download the latest version, this goes to some anonymous website, most likely infecting your PC. Always, and I mean always use official, microsoft.com website for any updates.
Happy internetting!
Tags: Internet Explorer, SPAM