I'm almost hesitant to post on this topic because there is such an ongoing cacophony of voices that have been calling for years for Internet Explorer 6 to be put away for good. But this scathing post from Ed Bott over at ZDNet is just too good. It gave me warm fuzzies.
Some of the choice bits:
If your organization is still using Internet Explorer 6 on Windows XP, just stop. Stop it now.
IE6 was replaced with the newer, more secure Internet Explorer 7 in October 2006, more than 40 months ago. And Internet Explorer 8 was released in March of 2009, nearly a year ago. Both browsers have large improvements in usability, including tabbed browsing, but their biggest selling point is security.
Any IT professional who is still allowing IE6 to be used in a corporate setting is guilty of malpractice. Think that judgment is too harsh? Ask the security experts at Google, Adobe, and dozens of other large corporations that are cleaning up the mess from a wave of targeted attacks that allowed source code and confidential data to fall into the hands of well-organized intruders. The entry point? According to Microsoft, it’s IE6...
Okay, go read the whole thing and give Ed some love.
