Comments on: an end of life date for IE6

By: Let’s end support of IE6 on behalf of Microsoft

Let’s end support of IE6 on behalf of Microsoft — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 11:43:25 +0000

[...] A fantastic proposal from the ever-creative and wonderful Chris Blizzard: “It sounds like some people in Norway have started to band together and just choose not to support it. But one thing that would really help is to just pick a date and have it spread world wide. [...]

By: Dan Frydman

Dan Frydman — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 17:46:02 +0000

Sign the petition to urge the UK government to upgrade away from IE6.

http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/ie6upgrade/

You can only sign if you’re a UK citizen. Please tweet this link, put it on facebook or blog about it!

By: designermozi

designermozi — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 11:38:06 +0000

It’s great but late move from google :-) It should be done a years ago! It will make life easier for front-end developer/designer!

By: Richard Lloyd

Richard Lloyd — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 11:17:58 +0000

Like Daniel, I thought the EOL for IE6 was July 2010 (I’ve searched around Microsoft’s EOL pages and that’s the date on there), but today, the BBC has put up an article claiming IE6 will be supported until 2014! WTF! See:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8488751.stm

By: So Cal Web Designer

So Cal Web Designer — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:17:13 +0000

We I am forced to drop support for IE6. And I am more than happy to do it. We have upgraded several machines to Windows 7. And guess what? You can’t run IE6Olas standalone on Win7. So I am informing my clients that we regret to no longer support IE6.

By: Niall

Niall — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:47:49 +0000

On our blog site (www.blog.securityitrust.com) we have some issue about IE 6. This old browser is still been used by some government department. Even Government IT people are convinced that this browser is Secure. So if the IT staff in an organisation doesn’t have any knowledge about IT Security how can you expect the management to be aware of the risks with browsers like IE 6.

Niall
http://www.securityitrist.com

By: Degradable PNG Transparency for IE6 | schoberg.net

Degradable PNG Transparency for IE6 | schoberg.net — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:25:19 +0000

[...] are eagerly awaiting the day Internet Explorer 6 dies. While there are a number of opinions in the community on when we should drop support and how we should encourage users to upgrade, the (sad) fact is that [...]

By: yuhong

yuhong — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 08:00:18 +0000

“You thought that was bad? Microsoft still provides extended support for IE5.01SP2 (on Windows 2000SP4) until 13/07/2010. ”
As a rule, the version of IE shipped with the Windows release will continue to be supported under it’s support lifecycle, no matter how obsolete it is, as do the latest version of IE available for it.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 10:20:10 +0000

Actually, the EOL of IE6 is exactly Thursday, 13 July 2010. At this date, the support for Windows 2000 finally ends. That’s the last currently supported OS where IE7 and IE8 can’t be installed.

It is also the real EOL for any IE 5.x.

By: Ken Saunders

Ken Saunders — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 02:39:19 +0000

Pure genius! I love it.
Who could possibly stop the momentum of this? Microsoft? Not hardly. What could they say?

“The final date for the end of life cycle for Internet Explorer 6 will not be on Dec 31st, 2009 as rumored.”

“We will continue to drag down the progression of the Internet and provide technical support (snicker) for IE6 until Hell freezes over.”

“You may however choose one of our other fine products, Internet Explorer 7, Internet Explorer 8, or one of the next ten releases of our browser until we are absolutely certain that we have gotten it all as wrong as possible.”

I fully support this initiative and will do my best to spread the word. Sorry that I discovered this so late.
Subscribing to your blog will prevent that from happening again.

P.S. Thanks for using a decent CAPTCHA service. I sincerely appreciate that.