Microsoft needs to stop trash-talking IE6 and just trash it
- Monday, 17 May 2010 11:05
Microsoft Australia has launched an online campaign to try to persuade people to stop using Internet Explorer 6. The campaign likens the browser to a carton of milk: you wouldn't drink nine-year old milk, so why would you use a browser of a similar vintage?
The site then goes on to list various facts and figures about how online crime affects Australians, and describes the ways in which Internet Explorer 8 protects against phishing and security flaws.
Though the comparison is more than a little absurd (and the idea of drinking nine-year old milk wholly revolting), Internet Explorer 6 is without a doubt thoroughly obsolete. Its support for Web standards, though reasonably good back in 2001, is nowadays laughable. The world has moved forward. Internet Explorer 6 has not.
