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Three days ago (January 30^th), The Google Apps Team sent an email to all Google Apps users about the impending phasing out of support for Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 as well as other browsers that are not supported by their own manufacturers.

This is big news and Google’s move adds a bigger force to the IE6 No More movement which pushes that all websites (personal to corporate sites) must drop MSIE6 support if we even want to see newer web technologies being used by everyone.

Follow up:

Time to get rid of IE6. If your corporation or organization is still tied-up to IE6 because your applications are themselves relies on IE6 to work, it is time to get rid of your (old) applications as well.

The world is tired of IE6. As the IE6 No More movement says: Enough is enough. The world is not going to wait for you any longer, either you start upgrading NOW or you start seeing less functional sites as the web moves forward without you.

Google is one and here is the email from the Google Apps Team:

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.

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.

Google Apps will continue to support Internet Explorer 7.0 and above, Firefox 3.0 and above, Google Chrome 4.0 and above, and Safari 3.0 and above.

Starting next week, users on these older browsers will see a message in Google Docs and the Google Sites editor explaining this change and asking them to upgrade their browser. We will also alert you again closer to March 1 to remind you of this change.

In 2009, the Google Apps team delivered more than 100 improvements to enhance your product experience. We are aiming to beat that in 2010 and continue to deliver the best and most innovative collaboration products for businesses.

Thank you for your continued support!

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