Microsoft is notorious, for among other things, its missteps with its browser Internet Explorer.  “Upgrades” they make to it end up causing headaches for Web developers whose websites don’t show in the new browser the way they did in the old.  This has always felt like Microsoft telling the World Wide Web that they better just get in line.  Now things are starting to change.  Many developers have told their clients that new sites may not work in older versions of IE.  And now comes an announcement from Google that they will not longer be supporting IE 6.0

“In order to continue to improve our products and deliver more sophisticated features and performance, we are harnessing some of the latest improvements in web browser technology.  This includes faster JavaScript processing and new standards like HTML5.  As a result, over the course of 2010, we will be phasing out support for Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 as well as other older browsers that are not supported by their own manufacturers.”

As  fans of Mozilla’s FireFox browser, we know it is a pipe dream that some day the World Wide Web community will say to Microsoft that they can do whatever they want with their latest browser because “We no longer support it.”  We don’t expect that to happen anytime soon, but what is likely is that Website developers, including Dew Point Productions, will stop trying to build Websites that work in outdated versions of IE.