Microsoft delivering us from evil: IE6!
If you’re a website designer/developer and utilize the power of CSS, you will know what I mean when I describe Internet Explorer 6 as evil.
Let’s face it, IE6 is a big ‘OOPS’! It is full of bugs, renders CSS terribly, and the bane of every web site designer who promises to deliver a cross-browser compatible website. You only need to Google IE6 + Hacks to see for yourself how tricky and wicked this little beast really is.
Well, here is a bit of good news…
On October 4th, Microsoft announced via its IEBlog that the Internet Explorer 7 installation will no longer require WGA (Windows Genuine Advantage) validation, and will be available to all Windows XP users.
What Microsoft is really saying: people who are running Pirated versions of Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 are finally able to get the IE7 upgrade.
When Microsoft first released IE7 in 2006, they made it a “forced” update for Windows XP, in the hopes that this would help get more people onto the new browser. This was definitely a step in the right direction, with Microsoft celebrating 100 million installations in January 2007.
Up until now however, people running pirated software (I’m not endorsing this by the way) were stuck with IE6 on account of the required WGA to upgrade. Today, these people account for a large percentage of those who continue to enable Microsoft’s washed up little browser to live on.
Thankfully, with this recent IE7 upgrade news from Microsoft, I hear the bells of redemption tolling louder than ever.
If you are still using IE6, please upgrade now to IE7. Microsoft won’t ask you how you got it — they don’t care anymore. Just help rid our world of IE6 and its reign of terror - forever!
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December 5th, 2007 at 9:03 pm
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April 29th, 2008 at 6:06 am
IE7 is even more evil!
It rendering of css is terriable!