Comments on: IE6 is no longer supported

By: Ben Kepes

Ben Kepes — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 00:27:43 +0000

Except that the vast majority of enterprises who’ve switched to Gmail are doing so merely as an infrastructure play – ie they’re still using traditional email clients (generally Outlook) at the front end….

By: Rod Drury

Rod Drury — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 23:45:01 +0000

Google also phasing out support for IE6

Dear Google Apps admin,?

In order to continue to improve our products and deliver more sophisticated features and performance, we are harnessing some of the latest improvements in web browser technology. This includes faster JavaScript processing and new standards like HTML5. As a result, over the course of 2010, we will be phasing out support for Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 as well as other older browsers that are not supported by their own manufacturers.

We plan to begin phasing out support of these older browsers on the Google Docs suite and the Google Sites editor on March 1, 2010. After that point, certain functionality within these applications may have higher latency and may not work correctly in these older browsers. Later in 2010, we will start to phase out support for these browsers for Google Mail and Google Calendar.

Google Apps will continue to support Internet Explorer 7.0 and above, Firefox 3.0 and above, Google Chrome 4.0 and above, and Safari 3.0 and above.

Starting next week, users on these older browsers will see a message in Google Docs and the Google Sites editor explaining this change and asking them to upgrade their browser. We will also alert you again closer to March 1 to remind you of this change.

In 2009, the Google Apps team delivered more than 100 improvements to enhance your product experience. We are aiming to beat that in 2010 and continue to deliver the best and most innovative collaboration products for businesses.

Thank you for your continued support!

Sincerely,

The Google Apps team

Its great they are also phasing out with GMail as well. This will put some pressure on enterprises, the biggest holdouts on IE6.

Rod

By: Catherine Walker

Catherine Walker — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 22:03:23 +0000

Hi Steve – can I just clarify if you’re referring to the warning message displayed when you log into the Xero application or the message that displays when viewing the xero.com website? What version of FF are you using?
Thanks, Catherine

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 11:09:07 +0000

I get this error with firefox too.

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By: Jason Glover

Jason Glover — Tue, 05 May 2009 07:28:41 +0000

I’ve been considering doing the same now for several months but been holding back because it didn’t feel very customer centric. However holding back progress overall for the good of the few isn’t fair on the many either.

I may well follow your lead.

Cheers ears

By: Japh

Japh — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 02:30:20 +0000

An interesting move! And surely one that is more justified for people offering a web app, rather than a simpler website.

Also, you need to update this page http://blog.xero.com/ie6/ as IE8 has been released and pushed out by auto-update, so IE7 is also out of date (sort of)

By: Paul.Rushworth

Paul.Rushworth — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 02:04:33 +0000

And today Microsoft appears to be pushing out IE8 via Automatic Updates as promised a week or two back. IE6's time really is over.

By: Campbell

Campbell — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 23:23:34 +0000

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