Microsoft has released a new Internet web site that's aimed at stepping up its campaign to move end users off Online Explorer (IE) 6.,
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The new web-site — the Net Explorer six Countdown — went live on March 4. The internet site “is dedicated to watching World wide web Explorer six usage drop to less than 1% worldwide, so more websites can choose to drop support for Online Explorer six, saving hours of work for web developers,” according to the web page.
The web-site includes links to tools for businesses that are stuck with IE 6 because they’ve developed internal-facing apps that are dependent on Microsoft’s 10-year-old,
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The new IE Countdown site also includes a globe map,
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In addition to focusing on the developer side of the “IE 6 must die” message,
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Update: Another reason IE 9 is not mentioned — which I didn’t consider earlier — is that IE 9 won’t work with/on Windows XP. I’d wager that a substantial percentage of those stuck with IE six are also still using XP, and if those users want to stick with IE,
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