Microsoft Australia: You wouldn’t drink 9 year old milk; so why use IE6?

May 15, 2010

Microsoft Australia: You wouldn’t drink 9 year old milk; so why use IE6?

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Microsoft Australia has launched a new upgrade-from-IE6 website urging users to upgrade their web browser from Internet Explorer 6 to the current latest Internet Explorer 8.

“You wouldn’t drink 9 year old milk … So why use a 9-year-old web browser?”

It also highlights the fact that a recent study by NSS Labs, Internet Explorer 8 caught socially engineered malware 85% of the time compared to Firefox 3’s 29%, Safari 4’s 29% and Chrome’s 17%1.

There is also a page where you can enter your friend’s details and Microsoft will ‘send them some spoilt nine-year-old milk’ to show them the benefits of using an up-to-date product.

UPDATE Aug 28, 2018: The page is no longer available.

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AnandK@TWC

Anand Khanse is the Admin of TheWindowsClub.com, a 10-year Microsoft MVP Awardee in Windows (2006-16) & a Windows Insider MVP since then. Please read the entire post & the comments first, create a System Restore Point before making any changes to your system & be careful about any 3rd-party offers while installing freeware.