> The impact on XP is similar. Those not opting to allow WGA installation or attempt it > but fail cannot upgrade from IE6.
http://www.infoworld.com/archives/emailPrint.jsp?R=printThis&A=/article/08/01/17/Microsoft-warns-businesses-of-autoupdate-to-IE7_1.html I agree with you on W2K, but XP users can now upgrade to IE7 without having to have the WGA stuff and apparently this is being forced through auto-update so there should be a noticeable drop in IE6 users. Ben -- e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] w: http://bendodson.com/ On 06/03/2008, Felix Miata <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 2008/03/06 20:09 (GMT) Ben Dodson apparently typed: > > > > My main hope is that the number of IE6 users will decrease rapidly as > there > > are still over 20% of the market according to the W3C statistics. > > Apparently Microsoft were going to do a forced upgrade from IE6 to IE7 > at > > the end of Feb but I don't know how well that has gone (or if it has at > > all). > > > IE6 won't be going away before W2K goes away, unless IE7 and/or IE8 is > released for W2K. Last I checked, WGA didn't apply to W2K, leaving it as > the > only supported yet readily pirate-able doz version. The impact on XP is > similar. Those not opting to allow WGA installation or attempt it but fail > cannot upgrade from IE6. > > -- > "Let us not love with words or in talk only. > Let us love by what we do." 1 John 3:18 NLV > > Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 > > Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/ > > > > ******************************************************************* > List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ******************************************************************* > > ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
