It is imperative that we all should stop using Microsoft Internet Explorer 6. Upgrading to a newer version or switching to another browser has ample benefits to your browsing experience, your computer’s security and access to online tools that may help with your daily activities.
If you’re a website designer/developer, then you would know the headaches associated and hours/cost involved in trying to get your website to work for the few users who haven’t switched. Is this really how you or your clients would like to spend your investment?
There’s that old saying, “If it ain’t broke, why fix it?” Well, it’s broken. Change is good.
Begin forwarded message:

From: The Google Apps Team
Subject: Important notice: Google Apps browser support

Dear Google Apps admin,?

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!

Sincerely,

The Google Apps team

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