Barney Carroll wrote:
The misleading implication with this news from MS is that users who
have been inexplicably stuck on IE6 will all be moved forward by
this. The sad fact is a lot of IE6 is intentional lock in. Here in
the UK almost all government employees have it as their only browser
— and that's a matter of government policy (it would cost them too
much to upgrade all their custom internal systems to work with new
software). Many large corporates (equally significant employers — and
a lot of people do all of their browsing on work machines) have
similar setups.
My current and previous employers are such.
Also local libraries - the
IE6 demographic is mostly stuck for other reasons.
And other people simply don't like UI changes such as the move from IE6 to
IE7
My college is stuck on IE6. After upgrading to IE6 this year (just before
IE9 was released), it is doubtful they will move past it very soon.
I suspect many schools are like that.
Del
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