Microsoft phasing out support for older versions of Windows is problematic because some businesses (those using Windows 2000 for example) will be stuck with unpatched software unless they purchase an update to Windows; it’s not only costly but it also creates compatibility issues that many businesses are not prepared to cope with. They have no access to source code, so they cannot quite resolve these issues, either (or hire someone to do this).

Similar issues are now being raised because Microsoft withdraws support for IE6. On the one hand, web developers are happy [1, 2] as they assume that people will actually depart from IE6. Well, perhaps they have not heard about what happened in Korea [1, 2]. It’s an issue that Mozilla mentioned the other day and the Korea Times has just raised as well.

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There is an ActiveX infection that prevents the nation from offering choice. This leads to many problems such as the recent attacks against Google users [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12]. Microsoft Nick writes: “Chinese hacker of Internet Explorer, Google ID’d by US investigators, report says”

The important points to make here are that: (1) Internet Explorer 6 will still exist, so sites need to be compatible with it and (2) Internet Explorer 6 users will be even less secure from now on, which helps nobody.

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My views:
IE6 was a nightmare. If you don't believe me, ask a web developer. Microsoft phasing out support for IE6 does not eliminate it from Windows XP systems people have (and cannot upgrade to Vista or Win 7 due to poor hardware and incapability of buying new hardware), those who don't know why a browser upgrade is essential. So, more problems.

Awakening Post Ubunty. However i believe we need to shift to newer things fast. You know the internet these days. Always full with bad boys than good one. So you need to protect yourself. And about Tweaking Codes I think that Microsoft will not allow you this. However Microsoft has its own Opensource section to guy who love to tweak with Codes.

gandip:

Awakening Post Ubunty.

Thanks

gandip:

However i believe we need to shift to newer things fast.

Yes. Like Chromium on FreeBSD? or should we choose to repeat the same problems by choosing IE8 on Windows?

gandip:

You know the internet these days. Always full with bad boys than good one. So you need to protect yourself.

Of course. Not only the internet, the whole world is full with people like that. So, it is better to keep the doors and windows shut.

gandip:

And about Tweaking Codes I think that Microsoft will not allow you this.

Not only that, they will even stop us from writing plugins to their products if they don't like it. Or even launching a website in our name, if they don't like it. So I have chosen to not use their products the best I can.

gandip:

However Microsoft has its own Opensource section to guy who love to tweak with Codes.

Sorry, I will avoid it at all cost. Thanks for the suggestion but I happen to know about that from since they first started that. Here is what Balmer has to say about OpenSource (2008, long after they started the Microsoft Opensource thing):
[W]e’ve worked very hard on making the value of a commercial company surpass what the open source community can deliver, because frankly, it’s not a business model we can embrace. It’s inconsistent with shareholder value.

He considers OpenSource as different thing from their business model, so I disagree that they truly endorse such a section.