Pressure mounts to phase out Internet Explorer 6

Jeebizz · 02-02-2010, 10:10 AM

"A Downing Street petition is calling for the UK government to drop Microsoft's Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) and move to a more modern browser."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8492862.stm

Well it is a start, but I was hoping IE itself would be phased out, not just an older version.

MrCode · 02-02-2010, 07:08 PM

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Originally Posted by the article's author

"There is no evidence that moving from the latest fully patched versions of Internet Explorer to other browsers will make users more secure," said Lord West.

Typical. Anything to keep MS happy.

DragonSlayer48DX · 02-02-2010, 09:31 PM

Heh, yep- IE6 has been patched to death... time to force them to move on.

BTW- A "fully-patched version of IE" doesn't exist. They've all died with known, unpatched security breaches, just like every version of Windows.

rkski · 02-03-2010, 10:33 PM

The headline should read:

"Pressure mounts to phase out Microsoft."