I should have clarified, but MS acknowledges that there are employees at corporations and others that are forced to use IE6. They're targeting the other group - the Just Don't Know Any Betters - to try and educate them and get them to switch.
Naturally, Windows 7 adoption will increase IE8 uptake and hopefully shrink IE6's numbers; I just hope that's sooner rather than later.
HA watch it buddy. I would love to change some things about the way the company operates but I get told no a lot. Playing the blame game with your IT department never gets you any where, except to the bottom of the help desk queue.
There are legacy hardware / software / OS considerations that still prevent organizations from advancing to the next decade in technology. Fixing one issue will certainly cause several other issues.
It's more often because of proprietary old code blobs that corps run on their intranet servers to that now are a critical underlying piece of some critically-needed software, and nobody wants to pay to have it updated. Guess what sticks around with all of the silly hacks IE6 allowed?
As others have said, many corporations including Best Buy, Wells Fargo, etc have software that was written back in the day that only works in IE6.
This counts for a hefty % of IE6 users.
However as a developer, this demographic doesn't really concern me. I could care less if a user went to my website on their lunch hour at work and my site doesn't render right.
What DOES concern me are all the consumers running IE6. These are the people we must get to upgrade. People who actively use the interweb and have some how avoided upgrading to IE7 or IE8 - *cough* Tim *cough*. THESE people are why designers/developers still have to often support IE6 - and can add 5-10% to the project costs depending on the complexity.
I understand some people are stuck with IE6. That sucks. I have sympathy for you, but it's the consumer who either don't know better or refuse to upgrade that chaps my ass.
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Naturally, Windows 7 adoption will increase IE8 uptake and hopefully shrink IE6's numbers; I just hope that's sooner rather than later.
I still find it hard to believe that there exists a real legitimate reason for continuing to use IE6 for 99.99% of the world.
This counts for a hefty % of IE6 users.
However as a developer, this demographic doesn't really concern me. I could care less if a user went to my website on their lunch hour at work and my site doesn't render right.
What DOES concern me are all the consumers running IE6. These are the people we must get to upgrade. People who actively use the interweb and have some how avoided upgrading to IE7 or IE8 - *cough* Tim *cough*. THESE people are why designers/developers still have to often support IE6 - and can add 5-10% to the project costs depending on the complexity.
I understand some people are stuck with IE6. That sucks. I have sympathy for you, but it's the consumer who either don't know better or refuse to upgrade that chaps my ass.
Yes I realize I'm taking your argument totally out of context.
Fixed. Also, good troll.