Debuted August 27th, 2001 for Windows XP and other variations of Windows, the Windows Team blog announced goodbye to IE6 today. The browser from Microsoft has been the subject of a lot of controversy over the years, mainly for it being incredibly slow and unsecure. Doing a search here on The Inquisitr for Internet Explorer 6 will give you an idea.
Usage of it has dropped to less than 1% in the US which pretty much renders it obsolete in the states. With the likes of Google Chrome, Firefox, and far more improved versions of Internet Explorer, the browser just can’t hold up to the competition anymore.
Microsoft is pushing it’s customers to use IE8 or IE9 which is at the end of the day, a no brainer for better performance, though I personally have had a better experience with Chrome in that aspect.
While the Windows team said goodbye to IE6 in the United States, they didn’t necessarily mention anything about usage in other countries, but did point to IE6 Countdown . The site shows a visual graph of each country and what their usage is at. It appears that China is the biggest offender (I mean user) with a whopping 25.2% using the antiquated web browser.
Worldwide and overall 7.7% of people are still using it. While it saddens many of us that people still use such a primitive web browser, Millions of people outside of the US still do. Fortunately, with ever better technology and costs of better tech going down, we’ll definitely see that change as more people get ahold of better computers which will in turn support better software.
Do you still use Internet Explorer? If you do can you tell us why?
