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Krzysztof Szafranek's link blog

Hi, I'm Krzysztof and I make websites.
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Mar 6, 2011 / 11:26pm

ie6countdown.com – a wolf in sheep's clothing

Yes, the banner is fugly - and inaccessible, thanks to the missing alt text – but that's not as much of a problem as where the banner links to: the IE homepage on microsoft.com. Given that everyone using IE6 is, at best, running Windows XP, and given that Microsoft have stated that IE9 won't be available for pre-Vista SP2 OSs, the most recent version of Internet Explorer they could ever hope to upgrade to is IE8.

On downsides of recent Microsoft's campaign to eradicate IE6. To Microsoft credit one must admit, that they're doing their best and it's hard to expect they will link to Firefox or Chrome instead of their own browser, even though it's already obsolete.