On 01/11/2010 15:55, Herbert Graf wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-11-01 at 06:46 -0500, Olin Lathrop wrote:
>> Peter Loron wrote:
>>> IE6 is, as others have mentioned, well past its sell-by date. It has
>>> numerous security issues, and is by far the least standards compliant
>>> browser still in significant use. Stupefying amounts of time are
>>> spent working around the broken standards support in
>>>
>>> Even if you don't care about the new features, updating to a more
>>> current version will help protect you from vulnerabilities that can
>>> be exploited to attack your computer.
>> Last time I looked at the next version of IE, it had some things I didn'=
t
>> like.  Can the various toolbars and stuff be stripped down like IE6 in t=
he
>> attached picture?  I never use those silly clickety-click tool bar icons=
 and
>> don't want them to waste pixels.  If I remember right, IE7 always had
>> another bar there you couldn't get rid of.
> Use Chrome. You don't get a browser more minimalistic in clutter (i.e.
> tool bars) then Chrome.
>
> It's fast, standards compliant, and has a plug in system almost as good
> as firefox.
>
>>> Please update your browser.
>> This is not your call nor your business.
> True, but considering the browser you're using I suspect you will get
> that recommendation more and more often.
>
> TTYL
>

It's all our businesses.

Using IE 6 was ALWAYS like running around in the dark having unprotected=20
sex with everything physically possible. AV software is a failure. A PC=20
with AV sw and IE6 can be part of a bot net and you never know. (Content=20
spamming forums. DDOS attacks as well as regular spam source)

Ever since it came out I was replacing it with Netscape. In once=20
instance using MS SMS to update 450 PCs.
Now there is a a choice of
MSIE7, MSIE8  (install one of these for MS Update to work, I prefer IE7=20
for that and use Firefox for browsing)
Seamonkey, Firefox
Safari
Chrome (if you don't care about privacy)

It's sheer bloodymindedness to use IE6 if you take 1 min to listen or=20
google.

Here is a handy Microsoft supported link http://www.browserchoice.eu/
Not sure how well works in IE6



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