Rest in Peace: Internet Explorer 6

For those of you who haven’t heard it (that’s right, all four of you) – Google is officially dropping support for Internet Explorer 6 in it’s applications.

The following are some excerpts from an email that they sent out to all Administrators of GoogleDocs accounts yesterday:

“In order to continue to improve our products and deliver more sophisticated features and performance… over the course of 2010, we will be phasing out support for Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 ​as well as other older browsers that are not supported by their own manufacturers.

Google Apps will continue to support Internet Explorer 7.0 and above…

Starting this week, users on these older browsers will see a message in Google Docs and the Google Sites editor explaining this change and asking them to upgrade their browser.” (emphasis ours)

Komosion couldn’t agree more.We have been saying as much in all of our recent public presentations and information nights: IE6 is now over 9 years old. For a piece of software, that is positively archaic. And in an environment that changes as much as the internet does each day? That’s just crazy.