I opened up Internet Explorer 6 this morning to work on some debugging for an online community website and this page showed up: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/ie/default.mspx
For those of you who don't know - Internet Explorer (IE) has been the bane of web developers' existence since it's inception. It does not comply with the internet web W3C standards and therefore does not render web pages like web-standards compliant browsers like Firefox or Safari. Why not just forget about it, you ask? Well, turns out that about 70% of internet usage today STILL use IE - if you have parents or grandparents over 40, do them a favor and download Firefox for them - you'll be helping us all out.
BUT the point is the Microsoft at least tried to get me to download IE version 8 which is light years more compliant than it's predecessors IE6 and IE7. And to THAT I applaud them. I'm still going to use Firefox.
