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Amnesia10

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	AlunD wrote: The fact that IE6 was such a non standards complaint browser means he is going to really struggle. Loads or large organisations both public and private sector had applications written to run on it and are stuck there. They either have to do major, if not total rewrites or .............

They will have to do rewrites at some point, though maybe they are hoping that IE9 is similar to IE6?

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	AlunD wrote: The fact that IE6 was such a non standards complaint browser means he is going to really struggle. Loads or large organisations both public and private sector had applications written to run on it and are stuck there. They either have to do major, if not total rewrites or .............

They will have to do rewrites at some point, though maybe they are hoping that IE9 is similar to IE6?

No more likely that it will come out of their successors budget

And I'm not joking when I say that.

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Re: Microsoft man: "My job is to destroy IE6"

And with the recession that will push it even further into the future.

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Wed Jun 02, 2010 12:11 pm

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	Amnesia10 wrote: And with the recession that will push it even further into the future.

You know how to cheer a guy up don't you 8-)

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Wed Jun 02, 2010 12:29 pm

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Re: Microsoft man: "My job is to destroy IE6"

At some point, they will have to do something. XP is dead and manufacturers of hardware are slowly dropping it from their support lists... When they start getting new machines, where there is no hardware support for Windows XP, they will have to move away from IE6 as well.

Or they can give me a call, I've got about 60 XP machines, with 256MB RAM I'm trying to get rid of and replace them with modern machines! :lol:

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	big_D wrote: Or they can give me a call, I've got about 60 XP machines, with 256MB RAM I'm trying to get rid of and replace them with modern machines!

Well I am looking for one just to play old games on so no need for IE6 as it will not be connected to the internet.

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