• Microsoft Urges Users to Upgrade to IE 8

    Microsoft Urges Users to Upgrade to IE 8

    Techtree News Staff, Dec 01, 2009 1741 hrs IST

    Online campaign asks users to get rid of IE 6

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Microsoft is urging web users to upgrade from Internet Explorer 6 to Internet Explorer 8 which was released in March this year. Now, with the holiday season just around the corner, Microsoft says users should upgrade to IE 8 for "safer" shopping. Also, a live bookmark webslice showing a website in small pane for eBay was released for this season specifically.

As per Net Applications' statistics for November 2009, IE 6 continues to be the widely used web browser followed by IE 8 and then IE 7. New browser versions from rivals Mozilla Firefox, Apple's Safari, Google Chrome and Opera are slowly but steadily gaining the market share.

Microsoft itself admitted the security flaws in IE 6 and IE 7 web browsers recently and hence urges users to upgrade. Nonetheless, just like we need to upgrade from obsolete or old technology, we've got to upgrade the browsers too. Earlier, this year, popular video sharing website YouTube dropped support for IE 6 as well in order to keep up with emerging web standards.

This is the video that asks used to upgrade their web browsers from IE6:





To download IE 8 for your system, head to this link. Note that Windows 7 bundles the IE 8 browser by default.  However, we hope Microsoft has passed on the message to several banking websites and other folks as quite a few Indian banking and government services websites support IE 6 only. If you're into online banking, make sure the bank's website supports other browsers. If not, better make an account with a bank that keeps head to head with technology.

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(4) Comments
naveenchaudhary
,meerut, on Dec 02, 2009 04:38 PM
however IE8 is better and faster than its ancestors, i tried it, but one thing i didnt like about it is that the history list shown at the seach bar cannot be disabled for now. maybe they will fix it soon. overall, it can now be compared to opera and other browsers.
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Prasath J
,Sivakasi, on Dec 02, 2009 01:46 AM
Even simple method is switch over to Firefox.. Other options are Opera, Safari, Chrome,...
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Ben Century
,Winnipeg, on Dec 01, 2009 06:39 PM
People still use IE? Wow.
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Rex
,Bangalore, on Dec 01, 2009 08:00 PM
For many of them, it's a forced choice due to the companies they work in. These often have legacy systems that rely on the crappy broken html implementation of IE6.
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