Dec 4, 2007
Why Won’t You Die, IE6?
It’s like that scene from Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, when Robin Spitz Swallows gets machine-gunned, fragged, thrown out of a building, and Austin asks incredulously, “Why won’t you die?”
It’s what I’m asking IE6 right now. The browser-that-needed-to-die this-year still controls 40% of the browser market share as of November 2007. 40%!
What happened to all that talk about how the Windows automatic update feature would rapidly accelerate the adoption of IE7?
IE6 experienced it’s biggest drop in January – February of this year, when it dropped from 54% to 49%. Since then, however, it’s been hanging on like a cockroach, dropping about one percent each month.
