Microsoft Persuades IE6 Users to Upgrade

Microsoft has urged users to ditch the ten-year old browser (Internet Explorer 6) in favor of newer versions of IE. (Microsoft are planning on launching IE9 soon.) The website http://www.theie6countdown.com is monitoring the use of IE6, and Microsoft hopes that IE6's user base has fewer than 1% of users. According to the article, 3.5% of people in the UK use the browser, but 34.5% of people in China use it.

Warman, Matt. Stop using Microsoft's IE6 web browser, says Microsoft. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/journalists/matt-warman/8366194/Stop-using-Microsofts-IE6-web-browser-says-Microsoft.html [March 7, 2011].