Microsoft kicks off effort to rid the world of Internet Explorer 6

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twesterm said:

HappySqurriel said:

This is actually one of the reasons I feel "sorry" (for lack of a better term) for Microsoft and think that their negative reputation is not entirely earned. You’d (probably) be surprised by how often you will come across someone who bashes Microsoft for being so insecure and when you look at their system you will see that they’re still running IE 6, haven’t done a security update on their computer since they bought it 5 years ago, their anti-virus software reached end of life years ago and they haven’t received a virus definition update since then, and their system is loaded with crap because every time they come across a accept/reject screen they accept everything without ever reading what it says.

I'd be willing to bet most people that hate Microsoft only do it because they think that's what they're supposed to do.

If you ask 10 people that say they hate Windows, IE, or Microsoft in general why they hate their products, nine of them probably won't give you an actual answer, just vague it sucks or it's broken type of comments.  They won't be able to say why they themselves hate Microsoft.

I hear that thrown around a lot.  However when I ever ask someone who says they dislike IE why they do, they will give me a valid reason.  The people that wouldn't be able to give me a reason, are those that are still using it even if they are unsatisfied because they have absolutely no idea about anything regarding technology.  Just like the people who were sold Vista with their 1Gb RAM and insufficient CPU laptops and just thought computers being that slow was normal.

The excuse that is long dead is security, all browsers are pretty secure these days.  Unless you are yourself doing something stupid or negligent you will be fine whatever you use.