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Re:After Google hack, Microsoft asks users to abandon IE6, XP by eli on Monday January 18, 2010 @09:03PM (#1061303)
This isn't new. It's not like Microsoft is happy that people still use IE6. Can you imagine being stuck on the team that writes security updates for that aging codebase?

I mean, jeez, they took heat at the time for pushing out IE7 as a critical update.

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Re:After Google hack, Microsoft asks users to abandon IE6, XP by geocar on Monday January 18, 2010 @11:43PM (#1061511)
You don't actually mean to suggest we should feel sorry for Microsoft do you?

It's not like they didn't do this to themselves, and on purpose no less. Stopping development on MSIE stopped the upgrade cycle, and the fact is: It is easier to upgrade when you do it every week than when you wait a few years.

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