via [news.bbc.co.uk](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8488751.stm)
I thought the governments of Germany and France officially discouraging IE was big news. This is even bigger. Google phasing out support for IE 6 will certainly have an accelerating effect on IE’s demise.
You can say that this is only IE 6 we’re talking about here, but once people have to download an alternative, anyway, why not go with Firefox? The only reason IE has lasted this long is that it’s there by default.
IE 6 is a huge slice of the overall IE market share pie. Some people will upgrade to 7 or 8, but many will go over to Firefox, Safari, or Chrome.
Any way you slice it, this is terrible news for Microsoft.
Notice the line toward the end of the article. In Germany, Firefox is already ahead of IE.
It’s only a matter of time before other big companies follow suit and stop wasting millions of dollars every year making sure all their web technologies are hacked to work in IE.
