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MoD to stick with IE6 despite security concerns
News Members of the armed forces will carry on using Microsoft's outdated Internet Explorer 6 browser, contravening the government's own advice on internet security. According to parliamentary written answers received by Labour MP Tom Watson, the...
[July 24, 2009, 14:57]
IE6 casts a long shadow for Microsoft
News It has been roughly eight years since Microsoft released Internet Explorer 6, but in many ways the company is still very much tied to the ageing product. Although Microsoft has released two major versions of Internet Explorer in the past couple of...
[August 14, 2009, 9:52]
Firefox in relation to IE6
Member Review I am recent convert to Firefox 2 after trying to upgrade from IE6 to IE7 and not getting along with it. I had been recommended to use Firefox before, but was more than happy using the IE6. I thought that browsing the internet was a simple function...
[August 19, 2008, 15:08]
Bing muscles in on IE6 users
Talkback If it will force those IE6 users to switch browsers then it is a good thing. Using IE6 is like parking your convertible, locking the doors, and leaving the top open.
[June 3, 2009, 14:50]
Google updates Gmail for IE6 users
News Google has released a new version of Gmail for the 2001-era IE6 browser. Many internet users are still getting by with IE6, despite the mass of recent activity in the browser market including Google's launch of Chrome, Firefox 3.1 due in months...
[September 8, 2008, 8:41]
Mobile IE6 to hit Chinese handset first
News China Mobile will be the first operator worldwide to deliver Microsoft's latest mobile-browser release to its customers. Scott Rockfeld, Microsoft's director of Windows Mobile, mobile communications business, told ZDNet Asia on Tuesday that China...
[November 18, 2008, 12:10]
MoD to stick with IE6 despite security concerns
Talkback This will only increase the number of botnets, and the spread of malware, adware, and virus infections. IE6 should have been removed from the market long ago.
[July 27, 2009, 13:39]
Bing muscles in on IE6 users
News Microsoft confirmed on Tuesday that it is looking into an issue in which users of Internet Explorer 6 are forced into having Bing as their default search engine. We are aware of the issue with Bing on machines running IE6 and are investigating a...
[June 3, 2009, 9:25]
IE6, IE7 hit by zero-day bug
News A zero-day exploit that targets a vulnerability in Internet Explorer 6 and 7 has been published. The exploit code, which was posted on the Buqtraq mailing-list on Friday, is not yet reliable, according to a Symantec blog post on Saturday.
[November 23, 2009, 11:07]
Latest IE6 vulnerability explored
News A new, unpatched flaw in Internet Explorer could let miscreants surreptitiously run malicious code on Windows PCs, according to the discoverer of the bug. The problem affects Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) - the latest version of Microsoft's Web browser...
[August 30, 2005, 16:30]
IE6 flaw may allow drive-by hacking
News Microsoft is investigating a flaw in Internet Explorer 6, according to a posting on the software maker's Security Response Center blog. The ADODB.Connection ActiveX control in Internet Explorer 6.x may contain a vulnerability that can cause memory...
[October 28, 2006, 18:52]
Honesty is the best policy for all the Web
Talkback As in IE6, there will be different IE7s AOL uses a different IE6 than the IE6 in PCs. There have been many different versions of IE6 in PCs. The big blue E internet access is different than all the others- and full of virus becaus of Internet...
[August 4, 2005, 2:50]
FF vs IE7
Talkback IE7 is NOT a new browser. It uses IE6 code so the insecurity is inherent. It is just IE6 with a new paint job. M$ has had time to do a complete rebuild on this browser and this is the best they came up with?
[October 31, 2006, 12:41]
Firefox loses market share
Talkback don't forget that Opera identifies itself as IE6 by default to avoid problems with a lot of websites and Opera 8 is a serious contender. With such small losso f share it is possible that Opera use reporting as IE6 is responsible
[September 3, 2005, 0:13]
It's Just How Things Are. (So I'm Told).
Blog Comment @codeslinger > change is risky change is also _expensive_. How many computers were there on this corporate environment Roger? How long would it take to upgrade to IE6? What would be the benefits to the company?
[August 21, 2009, 11:02]
Microsoft admits targeting Wine users
Talkback Back to our scheduled Wine comments. What does a user need to 'enjoy' a Win32-compatible environment under Linux, and be used in business? Web: IE6 is quite difficult to install under Wine. It's possible, but with this new policy YOU WON'T HAVE IT...
[March 6, 2005, 22:24]
Desktop Linux: Novell making slow progress
Talkback ".difference between NT and OpenOffice," Umm, since when was NT an office productivity suite? For example, the system which it uses to file expenses required Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) and the Microsoft Java Engine.
[September 30, 2004, 18:16]
Vista struggles to attract enterprise users
Talkback Replacing XP with VISTA is like taking a step backward, with all the new memory, and hardware requirements, not to mention compatibility problems. As far as IE7 adoption, IE7 is IE6 in a new wrapper, so why upgrade?
[April 3, 2008, 13:44]
IE only as a last resort
Talkback I use Firefox, which I prefer to IE7. I was a beta tester and hit many issues with IE7 which has rather put me off installing it. Occasionally I have to use the IE6 rendering engine with Firefox (using IE Tab) either because the page won't display...
[July 4, 2008, 11:08]
It's Just How Things Are. (So I'm Told).
Blog I find my self working in the corporate head quarters of a famous shoe maker located in Street, Somerset. I sit down to use one of the computers in the staff cafe for a little browsing session, only to find IE6 languishing on the system.
[May 15, 2009, 9:32]
