I just got a message from the GoogleApps customers support: > Dear Google Apps admin, > > In order to continue to improve our products and deliver more sophisticated > features and performance, we are harnessing some of the latest improvements > in web browser technology. This includes faster JavaScript processing and > new standards like HTML5. As a result, over the course of 2010, we will be > phasing out support for Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 as well as other > older browsers that are not supported by their own manufacturers. > > We plan to begin phasing out support of these older browsers on the Google > Docs suite and the Google Sites editor on March 1, 2010. After that point, > certain functionality within these applications may have higher latency and > may not work correctly in these older browsers. Later in 2010, we will start > to phase out support for these browsers for Google Mail and Google Calendar. > > Google Apps will continue to support Internet Explorer 7.0 and above, Firefox > 3.0 and above, Google Chrome 4.0 and above, and Safari 3.0 and above. > > Starting this week, users on these older browsers will see a message in > Google Docs and the Google Sites editor explaining this change and asking > them to upgrade their browser. We will also alert you again closer to March > 1 to remind you of this change.
That's the good thing about Google, they can put a lot of pressure on Microsoft. - Raju
