Google has announced that it will be withdrawing support for Internet Explorer 6, from March 1st 2010. This follows the highly publicised spat with China over the attack on Chinese Gmail accounts.
It still isn't totally clear where the attacks originated but they were successful enough to cause a big headache for Google and I suspect that part of the motivation for ceasing IE6 support is 'Saving Face'. After all if Google and China are still to continue trading, and it seems they must, then someone has to do something about resolving the disharmony that originated from the attacks.
Microsoft issued a fairly prompt patch for IE6 and I don't envy the developers given that task. Germany and France were instrumental in increasing Microsoft's pain by advising their citizens to switch to other browsers. IE6 is ancient and out of step with the security situation on the internet these days and really shouldn't be in use any more. The close tie in between browser and operating system never was a good idea.
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