Starting with March 1st current year Google Apps will stop providing support for Internet Explorer 6 web browser users, which, despite the fact that it is far superior to the most recently released ones IE7 si (in special) IE8, or rivals Firefox, Opera, Safari and Chrome (starting from the first versions to the last ones released), it continues to be al 2-lea the most popular browser in the world, covering a percentage of 20,99% from the global market.
We plan to begin phasing out support of these older browsers on the Google Docs suite and the Google Sites editor on March 1, 2010. After that point, certain functionality within these applications may have higher latency and may not work correctly in these older browsers. Later in 2010, we will start to phase out support for these browsers for Google Mail and Google Calendar.
Rajen Sheth, Manarar senior has Google Apps stated that this decision was taken for a encourages Internet users to abandon their old browsers, which presents a real risc because of vulnerability which can be exploited by hackers, in favor browserelor the ultima generation (a month ago, a few hackers from China attacked over 30 IT companies including Google, taking advantage of a vulnerability discovered in IE6). Also, the governments of some developed countries, such as Germany, Australia or France, called on IE6 users to stop using this browser, warning them of the risks they are subject to, thus convincing several hundred thousand of them to use Firefox to surf the Internet.
Use: uSERS Internet Explorer 6 they will still be able to use Google Apps, though their new functions will not be available and others, already existing, will stop working correctly.
