Microsoft has said it will release a patch on Thursday to fix the Internet Explorer 6 flaw that hackers used recently to attack Google and other large companies. The attacks have triggered a slugfest between Google and the Chinese government. While the flaw can also be exploited in Internet Explorer 7 and 8, most of the attacks so far have been against IE6 on Windows XP because this combination of browser and operating system seems to be the most vulnerable. The situation raises the question of why large corporations continue to use IE6, which is now eight years old.
The idiots on the internet who constantly put down automatic updates and upgrading to the latest software are the ones to blame. They gave IE7 and IE8 such a hard time for providing more security.Huh? Why would they complain? Why would IT departments make more work for themselves by sticking with IE6? Job security? Maybe. I think Microsoft could have done better in stopping support for IE6 and even XP. Come on! Apple moves on and just tells its users to do the same or find another OS. Microsoft was just too worried about upsetting corporate companies that it allowed its demise to happen. I still find it interesting how people can even access the web with IE 6 and have a good browsing experience?
Technology is a bad thing when stupid people use it.
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Why Is Internet Explorer 6 Still Hanging Around?
Posted by: Richard Adhikari January 20, 2010 12:01 PMMicrosoft has said it will release a patch on Thursday to fix the Internet Explorer 6 flaw that hackers used recently to attack Google and other large companies. The attacks have triggered a slugfest between Google and the Chinese government. While the flaw can also be exploited in Internet Explorer 7 and 8, most of the attacks so far have been against IE6 on Windows XP because this combination of browser and operating system seems to be the most vulnerable. The situation raises the question of why large corporations continue to use IE6, which is now eight years old.
Technology is a bad thing when stupid people use it.