A funeral of "Internet Explorer 6" that took over the turbulent era to hold

Published on August 27, 2001, it became clear that the funeral of "Internet Explorer 6 (IE 6)" which was used by many users for a long time is carried out frantically.

Although the same browser which survived while competing browsers such as Firefox, Opera, Safari and others aiming for "overthrown IE" has made a dramatic evolution of hardware, software, and net service, it will finish its function.

Details are as below.
Announcement | IE6 Funeral


According to this page, "Internet Explorer 6 (IE 6)" finishes its lifetime on March 1, 2010, leaving the son's "Internet Explorer 7 (IE 7)" and granddaughter "Internet Explorer 8 (IE 8)" That's right.

The funeral is said to be performed at 7:00 pm on March 4 at the building of the design company "Aten Design Group" located in Denver, Colorado, USA, and is currently recruiting attendees.

By the way, why does IE 6 finish its life,To stop Google from supporting previous generation browsers including IE 6 in phases starting March 1, 2010That is because it is thought that each company will follow up as we end support. Also,Microsoft itself also distributes IE 8 with automatic updateWe are urging the transition.

IE6 support ended, how will browser share change in future? Incidentally,Access analysis result of GIGAZINE for January 2010The use rate of IE is 47.23%, the use rate of Firefox is 29.14%, and it is a form that Firefox slowly catches up, but looking at the breakdown of IE, 8.0 is 45.64%, 7.0 is 32.08%, 6.0 is It is 22.17%, so IE 6 is never a past browser as one in about five IE users are using IE 6.