Reliance on IE6 has stalled some efforts to upgrade to Windows 7 , and virtualization companies have had to build tools to ease the migration process. Chrome and Firefox are also widely used alternatives to Microsoft's Internet Explorer browsers.
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Improve compatibility Enjoy the dual engine advantage with Internet Explorer mode to render older sites and Chromium to render newer ones. Not that Microsoft's entirely happy with that. According to the most recent data from California-based Web metrics company Net Applications, By comparison, IE7 accounted for Bazdukas also attributed some of IE6's popularity to Windows' high piracy rates in countries like China and India.
That also helps to drive the persistence of IE6. Many companies have old software that depends on IE6, and that software is not upgradable because they have no budget or the developer is not around anymore, or the in-house developer left.
Like Bazdukas, Valdes thinks IE6 is ancient history. Bazdukas reiterated what several other Microsoft managers have recently said, that the company is committed to supporting IE6 until April 8, , which is when all support for Windows XP, the operating system IE6 is tied to, will end.
That practice of supporting a browser for 10 years -- the same length of time as the version of Windows it debuted with -- won't change, Bazdukas said when asked whether Microsoft would consider separating browser and OS support.
Microsoft really doesn't have a choice, echoed Valdes, because of decisions it made nearly a decade ago.
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