Windows 7 Former Microsoft execs launch IE 6 migra

A handful of previous Softies who labored around the Microsoft World-wide-web Explorer group have released a enterprise which is tackling the IE 6 migration issue faced by many businesses.
The new Redmond, Wash.-based enterprise, Browsium, released on March fifteen its first product, identified as UniBrows. UniBrows will enable “legacy IE 6-based Web applications to run on Windows 7 and IE 8 on Windows XP without modifying a single line of code,Microsoft Office 2010 Professional,” according to the company’s Web site.
One of the main reasons that lots of companies (in the U.S., at least) are still running IE6 on XP is they’ve built internally-facing applications that are dependent on IE 6. Microsoft has been encouraging customers, even those running on XP, to upgrade to IE 8 — but not IE 9, since Microsoft doesn’t support IE 9 on XP. But the upgrade process is difficult and costly. In fact,Windows 7 Product Key, Gartner analysts dinged Microsoft last year to the cost of its IE 6 migration tools.
Browsium is touting UniBrows as a way for organizations to free up their Windows 7 upgrade path. The product makes use of an IE 8 add-on that enables IE six net applications to run in an IE 8 tab,Windows 7 Product Key, enabling enterprises to upgrade PCs to Windows 7 while keeping their legacy IE six applications running unmodified, according to the organization.
“UniBrows delivers complete IE6 functionality and behaviors by using the original, native IE6 rendering,Microsoft Office 2010 Professional Plus, JavaScript, ActiveX and security design,” provider officials said in today’s press release. Administrators can
create the rules and profiles for specifying which net applications should use the IE6 browser engine and legacy ActiveX components and which can use the IE 8 ones.
Browsium has been testing UniBrows with customers for the past six months, the release added.
UniBrows is licensed to organizations with 5,000 to 50,000 PCs with a $5,Microsoft Office 2007 Professional,000 base license fee plus $5 per seat. Licenses, renewable yearly, include all updates and upgrades at no additional cost. Volume discounts are available. There’s a 60-day free evaluation kit available at www.browsium.com.
Browsium’s management workforce includes three previous Microsoft IE execs: Matthew Heller, Browsium’s Founder and CEO; Gary Schare, its President and Chief Operating Officer; and Matthew David Crowley, its Chief Technology Officer.