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GIVE IT UP, microsoft have said they will support IE 6 until 2014. IE 6 was initially realease on August 27, 2001, come the prposed end of life date – 2014, IE 6 will be 13 years old! In computing terms, that will make IE 6 a dinosaur.

As of January 10, 2009, Secunia reports 142 vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer 6, 22 of which are unpatched, some of which are rated moderately critical in severity.

“Microsoft has underlined support for its Internet Explorer 6 web browser, despite acknowledging its flaws.

The software giant said it would support IE6 until 2014 – four years beyond the original deadline.

Critics – some of which have started an online campaign – want the eight-year-old browser mothballed because they claim it slows the online experience.

“Friends do not let friends use IE6,” said Amy Barzdukas, Microsoft’s general manager for Internet Explorer.

“If you are in my social set and I have been to your house for dinner, you are not using IE6,” she said. “But it is much more complicated when you move into a business setting.”

“It’s hard to be cavalier in this economy and say ‘oh it’s been around for so long they need to upgrade,’” Ms Barzdukas told journalists in San Francisco..

Web monitoring firms estimate that 15-20% of people still use IE6 to browse the web.

Enough is enough

Among those speaking out against IE6 is a group of more than 70 developers who have banded together to form a project called ie6nomore.” – http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8196242.stm

Why not take a look at IE6NoMore

Its official, Windows seven is now no longer RC, its RTM!  In a post by Brandon LeBlanc over at the windowsteamblog.com he says

“I am pleased to announce that Windows 7 has RTM’d!

As I mentioned previously, RTM officially happens only after sign-off occurs. What happens is a build gets designated as a RTM contender after going through significant testing and meeting our quality bar for RTM. Then, it goes though all the validation checks required for RTM including having all languages of that build completed. If all the validation checks have passed – sign-off for RTM can occur. Today after all the validation checks were met, we signed off and declared build 7600 as RTM.

Not only is RTM an important milestone for us – it’s also an important milestone for our partners. Today’s release is the result of hard work and collaboration with our partners in the industry to make Windows 7 a success. We delivered Windows 7 with a predictable feature set on a predictable timetable that allowed OEMs to focus on value and differentiation for their customers.

Our customers told us what they want (and expect) and we defined those specific experiences and then built features to support them (like HomeGroup and the Windows Taskbar enhancements). Our customers also told us that “fundamentals” on both the hardware and software side was extremely important. Windows 7 today runs great on the broadest array of hardware types ranging from netbooks to high-end gaming machines. We worked closely with OEMs so that their PCs delight customers with the new features in Windows 7.

Of course, today’s release is also the result of the amazing amount of feedback we received from the millions of people who tested Windows 7 – from Beta to RC. We actually had over 10 million people opt-in to the Customer Experience Improvement Program (CEIP). That’s a lot of people opting in to help us make Windows 7 a solid release.”

Im currently playing with windows 7 on my laptop (and quite impressed too) but after providing a print screen of a ping of myNetwork scan results for Nokia E71 post , I noticed in the command line utility it said it was “Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7100]”

ok so wich is it – is it Windows 7 or Windows 6? Microsoft please make up your mind.

Well Microsoft has launch their new beta of their new search engine – now bing.com and bing.net.

It’s believed that Microsoft has hired London-based ad agency JWT to head up an $100m ad campaign to push its rebranded search engine.

in my opinion they need to spend a lot more than that just to get a better algorithm for searching the Internet. The site feels slower compaired to their rival google,  in my opinion Microsoft need to give up the idea of converting people from googling it, and if their beta is much to go by my advise would be, don’t Bing it…..just bin it!