Excellent Boo, I completely agree. We all hate IE6, that's true, but it's definitely not our place to dictate to users to get rid of, especially not using an underhand method like this. It's as bad as the methods that malware uses. Makes me pretty sick to be honest.

Edcuate users to the benefits of upgrading, but never force them. It's their choice at the end of the day.

Thanks for this Paul -- I saw IE6Update yesterday and it made me just as angry. Like you, I'm no fan of IE6 but I'm getting tired of IE6 witchhunts. This is taking things too far and shows a total disregard for users. This is not how we as a community should be behaving.

I completely agree Paul, this is really bad.
I think it's pretty safe to say that the majority of people still using IE6 do not have any choice in the matter, i.e. they're sitting in enterprises consisting of hundreds if not thousands of users where the process of upgrades are very strictly managed.
The biggest reason used by management for not upgrading is cost. If it doesn't effect the day t...

Couldn't agree more Paul. On the surface, I expect a lot of developers/designers looks at this IE6 update "feature" and think to themselves "cool, saves me having to support IE6". Without thinking why their users are on IE6.

A lot of larger companies (my previous one for example that has over 5000 employees) have IE6 as a company standard, controlling this via a central IT deployment. Individu...

Hi Paul, I've just done an AudioBoo response to your rant on IE6 (http://audioboo.fm/boos/7496-response-to-paul-boag-s-rant-on-ie6update).

While I thoroughly respect you and look up to you in many ways, I have to say I disagree with you on this one. I think this is the best script of it's kind, and the only one I would support, as it is done in a very sensible manner.

Notifying users that th...

I totally agree with you Paul. Corporate networks and I.T teams normally prevent IE updates and minor Windows updates for a reason.

Having worked in IT since 1995, and worked along side and built allot of corporate I.T solutions, people need to understand that allot of them won't upgrade due partly to large scale networks, security risks, software compatibility and customisation that most corp...