Death of IE 5 and IE 6

[Flynt]

Doing a demo at one of my clients, he opened his browser and to my surprise it was Internet Explorer 5 !! I suggested he upgraded his browser, upgrading is an understatement for this bloke...

Now I know most "bigger" companies standardize on IE6, when will they catch up??

Shouldn't companies leap forward and upgrade browsers and intranets??

Do you agree that the death of IE5 and IE6 should be now??

 

[guest2013-1]

It should have been when IE7 released. The only other reason I can think of why they persist with these older versions OTHER than legacy intranets is the fact that Microsoft releases buggy software and introduce multiple new security flaws in the said released software... so it's a risk they don't want to take

 

[Roo!]

Well, in a corporation, surely the security risks are heavily reduced by a reliable firewall and an suite of anti virus/malware/spyware applications?
As for legacy intranets, well I think it's time they upgraded them to be more standards compliant (which they should have been in the first place).

 

[dequadin]

What OS was he running? Because according to Wikipedia IE 5 last shipped with XP beta. Maybe is was a Windows 2000 box, that is slightly more acceptable as IE 7 isn't supported.

Here's some history

IE 5 Release History

Minor version	Release date	Significant changes	Shipped with
5.0 Beta 1	June 1998	Support of more CSS2 features.	N/A
5.0 Beta 2	November 1998	Support of bi-directional text, ruby character, XML/XSL and more CSS properties.	N/A
5.0	March 1999	Final release. Last version supported on Windows 3.x and Windows NT 3.x. Windows 98 SE	N/A
5.01	November 1999	Bug fix release.	Windows 2000
5.5 Beta 1	December 1999	Support of more CSS properties. Minor changes to support of frames.	N/A
5.5	July 2000	Final release. Last version supported on Windows 95.	Windows Me
5.6	August 2000	Unique version with Windows Whistler (XP) beta.	Windows Whistler build 2257

IE 6 Release History

Minor version	Release date	Significant changes	Shipped with
6.0 Beta 1	March 2001	More CSS changes and bug fixes to be more W3C-compliant.	N/A
6.0	August 27, 2001	Final release.	Windows XP
6.0 SP1	September 9, 2002	Vulnerability patch. Last version supported on Windows NT 4.0, 98, 2000 or Me.	Windows XP SP1 and Windows Server 2003
6.0 SP2	August 25, 2004	Vulnerability patch. Popup/ActiveX blocker. Add-on manager.	Windows XP SP2 and Windows Server 2003 SP1
6.0 SP3	April 21, 2008	Latest updates included with XP SP3	Windows XP SP3

Oh and the death of IE (all versions) should have been with FireFox 2....

 

[Flynt]

Oh and the death of IE (all versions) should have been with FireFox 2....

Lets agree to agree unanimously!!

 

[Asha'man X]

The problem is often that companies invest cash into systems, the systems work as planned and then the company doesn't want to fix what isn't broken. Unfortunately, by the time new software comes along that is far better, said application has so much data and hours invested into it that companies just don't want to change, since the existing system is working.

 

[Necuno]

we running ie 8 as standard. our international sister company is on ie7.