Comments on: Google Diminishing Support For IE6 http://www.watblog.com/2010/02/05/google-diminishing-support-for-ie6/ The Refreshing Blog on Web, Advertising and Technology in India! Wed, 08 Feb 2012 06:34:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Ed http://www.watblog.com/2010/02/05/google-diminishing-support-for-ie6/comment-page-1/#comment-37729 Ed Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:17:10 +0000 http://www.watblog.com/?p=17796#comment-37729 Google are just indulging their dislike of Microsoft, by going in for the good old sport of Microsoft-bashing, in the hope of gaining a commercial advantage (i.e. enhancing the user-base for their own web browser, Chrome, at the expense of Microsoft's Internet Explorer). Google has a financial interest in rubbishing IE6. So this is not an unbiased assessment of that browser by Google, but a blatent piece of opportunism, following Google's well-publicised alleged problems with IE6 over the last few days. Moreover, the reality is that Google are only planning to upgrade some unimportant aspects of their website. The search engine, the important bit, will continue to function normally in IE 5 and IE 6. Most IE6 users are running some version of Windows 9x, on an older computer, one that isn't capable of running IE7. So what Google is really saying is: we demand that you buy a new computer, and a new Operating System, and all-new Windows NT software. Well, no one is going to do that! Not because one search engine makes a trivial change to its website. Even if Google disappears tomorrow, there are plenty of other search engines. Google are just indulging their dislike of Microsoft, by going in for the good old sport of Microsoft-bashing, in the hope of gaining a commercial advantage (i.e. enhancing the user-base for their own web browser, Chrome, at the expense of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer).

Google has a financial interest in rubbishing IE6. So this is not an unbiased assessment of that browser by Google, but a blatent piece of opportunism, following Google’s well-publicised alleged problems with IE6 over the last few days.

Moreover, the reality is that Google are only planning to upgrade some unimportant aspects of their website. The search engine, the important bit, will continue to function normally in IE 5 and IE 6.

Most IE6 users are running some version of Windows 9x, on an older computer, one that isn’t capable of running IE7. So what Google is really saying is: we demand that you buy a new computer, and a new Operating System, and all-new Windows NT software.

Well, no one is going to do that! Not because one search engine makes a trivial change to its website. Even if Google disappears tomorrow, there are plenty of other search engines.

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