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I pity any poor user still stuck with that piece of sh1te...

All the PC's in our office still use IE6. Thankfully I'm not in there very often. The laptops we are given for offshore aren't locked down like the office PC's so most of them have Firefox or/and IE8 installed.

I feel sorry for the man with this task. Far too many companies are very slow upgrading to IE8 or an alternative. Yet bizarrely when you use many sites if will ask you to use a more up to date browser. I had just that problem with Hotmail only a couple of days ago. It advised me to use a more up to date browser, and suggested Safari. I was already using the most up to date version of Safari.

Fixed as it was a case of

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It isn't just companies.

There are still a lot of people using Windows 9x at home, or Windows SP1 or SP2, still running the "free" version of Norton that came with the PC (in 2002/3) and never having applied any updates. They don't understand security or browsers, they already have an Internet icon on the desktop, why do they need anything else?

One of them finally upgraded last year, they got rid of their 133Mhz Win 98 machine and bought a Q6600 quad core HP machine, which was "so slow" in comparison! Well, the Win 98 machine would boot to a working desktop in under 10 seconds, including the POST screen, the HP needed nearly 1 minute! Trying to explain that modern Windows is much more complex and needs to do more is pointless, they just don't understand, no other "white goods" they buy are "slower" than what it is replacing... The fact that it could do much more and was actually faster, once it had started, was lost on them at fist.

Likewise, at work, the company that had maintained our PCs had switched off automatic updates in 2002 and the machines had never been updated. Try updating those machines and they crawl! Putting SP3 and IE 8 on those machines and they are pretty much unusable! Add in AV software, which takes up to 3 days to scan the hard disk, during which time the user can't really work, and you can see what I have to cope with!

Most of the machines have now been upgraded from IE6 to IE8, but a few still only have 256MB inside and that is a pointless exercise...

In my spare time I'm a school governor for a primary school and did an IT visit a month or so back.

Nearly every PC I looked at was running WinXP Sp1 or 2 and everyone had IE6 - I was quite shocked.

When I challenged thr teacher responsible for IT she said they didn't have the resources (i.e money) to get someone in to run proper updates etc on them.

I'm always surprised to hear that said nowadays about computers...Yet the School of Art attached to the uni have a small batch of Macs to do various things with. The main uni down't support Macs and the School of Art doesn't have the resources (money) to get people in to do the work. They are running an OS that is two versions out of date (106 is the newest, they are running 10.4) and not all of them are up to date with security patches etc., Adobe CS3 when the latest and greatest would probably be best for some of the students, and a host of software that differs from one machine to another...

Good luck to the guy forcing out IE 6. In my opinion MS should have shot XP down (and this IE 6) as soon as Vista was released three years ago, then perhaps people would at least be on IE 7...

I am surprised. Couldn't an IT teacher do that? If not what are they teaching the kids? At least one person should be qualified on each site to update these things.

They outsource IT problems to a "guy" who apparantly comes in one afternoon a week - totally inadequate and I will say that in my report to the other governors.

They should run AV scans overnight once a week, and updates regularly. Though who does it is down to individual schools. I am frankly surprised that this was not budgeted for in the beginning and organised once the machines arrived.

Lol, my mate did that a few years back. I couldn't believe it.

My GF's dad was in the same boat, actually worse, he had no antivirus or firewall! I ran scans for everthing and there was nothing, absolutely nothing on his PC. Mind you he lives in Austria and I think his cable company must provide some sort of inbuilt protection. Either that or he'd been very lucky.

We're still stuck with IE6 'cos most of our Intranet was written for it, and I suspect there's nobody left with the skills to rewrite it. I'm lucky enough to have admin rights on my PC, so I've got Firefox as well.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/06/01 ... microsoft/

Companies still use IE6 as it doesn't render Facebook properly.

We have done a roll out of IE8. Our main apps are browser based and thankfully there were no issues in upgrading.

The fact that IE6 was such a non standards complaint browser means he is going to really struggle. Loads or large organisations both public and private sector had applications written to run on it and are stuck there.

They either have to do major, if not total rewrites or .............