It’s official. According to the IE Dev Blog at MSDN, MSIE8 will be the direct upgrade path via Windows Update in the third week of April. [here]

I discussed the slow decrease in MSIE6 browser share earlier today, but it is not occurring fast enough for my liking. It is a browser from what seems like a generation ago.

To give you some idea of why MSIE6 should gently euthanized, when it was a shiny new browser:

• Facebook, MySpace, GMail, and YouTube did not exist
• You could count the number of bloggers (remember them?) on one hand
• UserLand was the primary blogging tool. Or a text editor.
• Scoble didn’t work for Microsoft
• Excite and AltaVista were still viable search engines

Is it too early to write a redirect rule to direct MSIE6 users to a page telling them to upgrade to view content?

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