Software giant Microsoft has announced it will support web browser Internet Explorer 6 until 2014, four years after its original deadline for the browser.
The decision has caused some critics of the software to voice their concerns, including current Microsoft employees.
“Friends do not let friends use IE6,” Amy Barzdukas, Microsoft’s general manager for Internet Explorer, told the BBC.
“If you are in my social set and I have been to your house for dinner, you are not using IE6,” she said. “But it is much more complicated when you move into a business setting.”
Additionally, a group of over 70 web developers have combined to create the group “ie6nomore”.
“Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 was released in late 2001. For its time, it was a decent browser, but in 2009, it is still in use by a significant portion of the web population, and its time is now up,” the group says on its website.
Patrick Stafford is a freelance journalist and a former deputy editor of SmartCompany.
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