Why You Can't Pry IE6 Out of Their Cold, Dead Hands

Esther Schindler writes "It's easy for techies to enumerate the reasons that Internet Explorer 6 should die. Although the percentage of users who use IE6 has dropped to about 12%, many web developers are forced to make sure their websites work with the ancient browser (which presents additional problems, such as keeping their companies from upgrading to newer versions of Windows). But rather than indulge in an emotional rant, in 'Why You Can't Pry IE6 Out Of Their Cold Dead Hands,' I set about to find out why the companies that remain standardized on IE6 haven't upgraded (never mind to what). In short: user and business-owner ignorance and/or disinterest in new technology; being stuck with a critical business app that relies on IE6; finding a budget to update internal IE6 apps that will work the same as they used to; and keeping users away from newer Web 2.0 sites."pa href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/02/21/174209/Why-You-Cant-Pry-IE6-Out-of-Their-Cold-Dead-Hands?from=rss"img src="http://developers.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=10/02/21/174209"/a/ppa href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/02/21/174209/Why-You-Cant-Pry-IE6-Out-of-Their-Cold-Dead-Hands?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./ppa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/7Kr905qTAI2IgotVMJCcecJnvVg/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/7Kr905qTAI2IgotVMJCcecJnvVg/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/7Kr905qTAI2IgotVMJCcecJnvVg/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/7Kr905qTAI2IgotVMJCcecJnvVg/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~4/OyeZJMAZpNY" height="1" width="1"/

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