Microsoft will be providing automatic updates to its browser Internet Explorer early in 2012. Currently, other browsers provide automatic updates, and this is good news for web designers and developers who have to cater for out-dated versions of the IE browser.
Earlier this year, Microsoft announced that it wanted to persuade users to upgrade from IE6: Microsoft Persuades IE6 Users to Upgrade.
The fact that users (and whole corporations) have clung onto the out-dated browser has not been good for Microsoft, in my opinion. Having an out-dated browser has probably cost the company a lot, and in my opinion, it portrays Microsoft in an un-innovative light when it comes to technology, particularly when there are much better browsers on the market, and these browsers are more standards-compliant. (Obviously, Microsoft's Internet Explorer and rival Netscape were the only two browsers at one time, and Microsoft has been a victim of developing the technology early.)
The Internet Explorer browser also been a sore point developers who build the websites and who are forced to spend extra hours getting the website to function and look reasonable in the browser. (An article describing extra time to cater for IE6 is provided here: How Much Time is Spent Debugging for IE6?) Also, it is a sore point for users who perhaps are using the out-dated browsers and have trouble accessing some websites, perhaps websites where the developer consciously made an effort not to support out-dated browsers. These users are not getting the same experience while using older versions of Internet Explorer.
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