It’s 2010. It’s time to stop using Internet Explorer 6.

Internet Explorer 6 was released like a virus on August 27, 2001 with Windows XP. That makes the browser almost 9 years old. Most of you don’t keep cars for that long. You trust your car to protect you from danger, that it has efficient gas usage and quality parts. As soon as it gets old, or you have service issues, you go get a new car. Yet, some of you don’t seem to be bothered that when you sit down to do your banking or purchase things online, you use a browser that has little to no security, easily delivers malware/virii/spyware, and does not adhere to the internet standards created by some of the top minds of internet architecture at W3C. That’s like going 80 miles an hour in a car made of glass, bald tires, and powered by a leaky nuclear core. Eventually you are going to get hurt.

With so many super sexy options out there for browsers, you owe it to yourself to upgrade. And why not? Browsers are free. You’re lucky. I remember paying for Netscape Navigator 4 just to escape Internet Explorer in the 90s. That’s how much I loathed it- and that’s how popular Netscape used to be. For the stubborn who refuse to upgrade, you are about to be left behind. Companies like Google are discontinuing support for Internet Explorer 6. Google knows whats up.

It’s time for you to take action. Please upgrade your browser today. Choose a flavor and enjoy better, and safer, internet browsing today. All of these browsers offer bookmark importing, so you can take your favorites from IE with you.

Google Chrome
Mozilla Firefox
Opera
Apple Safari

If you need assistance upgrading, we’re here to help.

Speed, simplicity and security are the key aspects of Google Chrome OS. We’re designing the OS to be fast and lightweight, to start up and get you onto the web in a few seconds. The user interface is minimal to stay out of your way, and most of the user experience takes place on the web. And as we did for the Google Chrome browser, we are going back to the basics and completely redesigning the underlying security architecture of the OS so that users don’t have to deal with viruses, malware and security updates. It should just work.

Right on. Trey and I always felt that this would happen sooner rather than later, as most people use software that is hosted in the cloud of the internet. Google, Google Apps, Gmail, Google Docs, Google Maps, Zoho, Facebook, etc… more and more software is online rather than offline, and all the user needs is a system with a browser to do their daily business.

This couldn’t come at a better time, with the backlash from Vista’s performance, confusing / labor intensive Linux distro,  and expense of an Apple system. I wish Google the best with this product, because it could really lower the cost of entry barrier for home PCs and internet surfers, and further drive the hot market of Netbooks right now.

Source: Google Blog