Comments on: Using IE6? Google Thinks You’re a Loser!

By: dizi

dizi — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 09:51:44 +0000

The best way I’ve found to deal with these clients is to offer them freebies from time to time - either a few hours at a reduced price or even for free, just don’t make this a habit. Still, this is only after the client has sent in a few payments and I know our business relationship is pretty solid; it never pays off to invest in projects that have no future. dizi's last blog post..gazze dramını anlatan şarkı

By: Jayson

Jayson — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 21:11:26 +0000

I think it’s a good idea too – Chrome is faster, why not tell people about it?

By: Andrew Melchior

Andrew Melchior — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 18:20:10 +0000

Last stat I read stated that over 80% of IE users have upgraded to IE7, doesn’t leave much of a reason for Google to be pressing people to upgrade…I smell conspiracy

By: DF Marketing SEO

DF Marketing SEO — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 15:10:57 +0000

LOL – Good idea. Internet Explorer has stayed stagnant – they need to make this browser more open source or innovative, because FireFox and Chrome are taking over.

By: Jessica

Jessica — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 22:19:25 +0000

After reading John’s post I downloaded and installed Flock. It is cute, by the way!
How many browsers do we have today in the Internet universe? Does anyone know? Every time I look around there is another browser!

By: Web Design Beach

Web Design Beach — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 22:05:47 +0000

Well, that is half fair. They should also included option for IE7 version if they wanted to cover themselves, but this way it is clear they want visitor to switch from MS software.

By: Tony

Tony — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:21:46 +0000

I’ve just listened to the Sitepoint podcast and it reminded me of a good reason why companies won’t/can’t upgrade from IE6, and it includes the place I work in. And that is that internal systems that rely on IE, won’t work with IE7. As it would require a project to upgrade the internal systems to work with IE7, budget and time constraints could be a big factor in switching over to IE7 – especially with the way the economy is just now.

By: John

John — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:18:36 +0000

after I found out firefox and flock, lost my interest on IE, don't care even they upgrade it to IE8. I am satisfied now. John's last blog post..Busby SEO Test the hard way

By: Jessica

Jessica — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 13:52:51 +0000

I worked in a large insurance company and they were using IE6.

But here is another problem…I am doing SEO for an eCommerce site and in Google Analytics I can see at least 25% of all visitors are using IE6. I thought these visitors live in poor countries, they have old computers, they have no money to buy something better.

What if all these IE6 visitors are corporations? Corporations are potential buyers in my case! There are so many bugs in IE6; it indeed can ruin any web site.

I can’t find any package that would simulate IE6 browser.

Now I see IE6 in different lite!
Thank you , Tony for bringing this up!

By: Wii

Wii — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 09:31:36 +0000

I wouldn’t touch IE with a barge pole any more but we still have IE6 at work and we are unable to use anything else. It means I can’t see many site the way they are meant to be seen but I have to put up with it I guess

By: Tony

Tony — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 06:21:53 +0000

@Jessica – I think it’s probably quite widespread. The company I currently work in use IE6 but I also have FF installed, but have a plan to upgrade to IE7. And the Bank I used to work in still used IE6 across the company. It would be a lot of work for an IT dept to upgrade all the machines in a large company, and also many still use Win 2000 or NT.

By: Jessica

Jessica — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 18:33:01 +0000

Very very good point, Tony! The large companies are indeed still using IE6!
Last year I saw IE6 installed on a PC in a large company.

By: Tony

Tony — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:15:42 +0000

Good on them! The more people that stop using IE6, the better life will be for web developers. I reckon that only large companies that haven’t yet upgraded all their PC’s still have IE6, and that most personal users would have moved on. Although that’s just my view and not backed up anything more than a hunch.

By: Goran Web Design

Goran Web Design — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 11:58:40 +0000

I wouldn’t say it’s an act of desperation… nor would I say it’s brilliant marketing. They’re simply promoting their own product, just as they should.. and the fact that their product IS better than teh competitor they’re putting down, all the better for them

By: Atniz

Atniz — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 05:52:53 +0000

This is common way to attract people. Hotmail used this method to become first famous free mail service. Now, google is doing it. Atniz's last blog post..Message To Work At Home Bloggers

By: Genel kultur

Genel kultur — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 23:50:56 +0000

Google is right. i stopped to use IE 5 years ago. Because not only the page loading time but also IE has lots of bugs.So it is not strong for some dangerious trojans. Also the a lot of Add-On can be added to firefox and this property shows that the firefox is the best browser Genel kultur's last blog post..İNSANIN KÖKENİ

By: Jessica

Jessica — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 14:13:33 +0000

This video is awesome!

By: Jessica

Jessica — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 14:09:03 +0000

I didn’t have too many bad experiences with Opera, but IE6 can definitely ruin your web site!

By: Quilmes Verano

Quilmes Verano — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 12:02:32 +0000

It’s obvious they want us to switch to non-microsoft products. What raises a few eyebrows is the fact that they’re still acknowledging Mozilla Firefox to be a good variant when they themselves have a competing browser (Google Chrome).

By: Henrik - Web Designer

Henrik - Web Designer — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 08:47:09 +0000

Well I think IE6 is awesome! And so do all the other members of The IE6 Supporter’s Club.

Have a look at the video

http://www.igenerator.com.au/blog/2008/12/web-designers-join-the-ie6-s upporters-club-today/