Yesterday I received an email from Ellen Skoglund, Windows Partner Solutions Manager here in Norway. Basically it's a "Get ready for Windows 7" email detailing how you should start to get ready for the Windows 7 release.
More interestingly, at least for the time being, it also had some thoughts regarding the usage of Internet Explorer 6.
They even quote Gartner Group:
"IE6 Is a Bad Place to Be. IE6 has limitations in the areas of user experience, standards support and, historically, security".
Microsoft goes on to link to the Norwegian IE6-campaign. Several international outlets have commented on the campaign earlier including Wired, The Register, Slashdot og PCWorld.
The whole email and comments by Anders Brenna, editor for Teknisk Ukeblad, can be read on their Teknisk Beta blog (norwegian link).
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h0bbel.p0ggel.org: “Microsoft (…) links to Norwegian anti-IE6 Campaign” | Is IE6 dead yet?, on March 28, 2009 at 5:31pm, said:
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Bish, on December 3, 2009 at 6:55pm, said:
Anti Explorer is a small piece of code you can place in your site's HTML which stops Microsoft Internet Explorer (MSIE / Explorer) from rendering your page. Along-side this, a notification alerts the user he / she is using MSIE and prompts him / her to download Firefox instead.
We've all been there. We design our site with Internet Explorer in mind, only to find we have to resort to numerous hacks and complicated code to get our site looking like it should in MSIE. Numerous Web Citizens have written hacks and workarounds for MSIE, only to be dismayed at all the extra effort they had to put in to get their designs cross-compatible with MSIE.
http://anti.eire-media.com/
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