Microsoft releases new website to kill IE6

Microsoft has released a new website with the expressed aim of killing off its Internet Exploder 6 browser. The browser was released 10 years ago. The new website is dedicated to tracking IE6’s dwindling market share and encouraging users to upgrade to a more modern browser. IE6 was probably the most successful browser in history and Microsoft took a lot of time and money to make it so. It also has to spend millions per year trying to fix IE6 security vulnerabilities.

Strangely there are still 12%  use IE6. Although the situation is worse in places like China where  34.5% of users are still on IE 6. South Korea, India, Taiwan, Saudi Arabia and Vietnam also still report more than 10% IE 6 usage.

On its new website, IE6Countdown.com, Microsoft is making its most concentrated effort yet to get users to move away from the decade-old browser.  The goal of the website is to get Internet Explorer 6 usage to drop to less than 1% worldwide.
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