Google to end support for Internet Explorer 6
Monday, February 1st, 2010Google is going to begin phasing out support for the Internet Explorer 6 browser as of the 1st of March. Google Docs and Google Sites will not support “older browsers” after that date, which means anything before Internet Explorer 7, Firefox 3.0, Chrome 4.0 and Safari 3.0. Presumably other Google services will follow suit.
For anyone who keeps their systems up to date, this will have no impact, as Internet Explorer 6 is old (and seriously flawed) technology. However, there are plenty of unpatched systems out there still using IE6 – over 10% according to the w3schools browser statistics site.
If yours is one of those systems, then you should make the switch now, either by upgrading to Internet Explorer 8, or by changing to another browser, such as Firefox, Chrome or Safari.
