Internet Explorer 6

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) is the sixth above afterlight of Internet Explorer, a web browser developed by Microsoft for Windows operating systems. It was appear on August 27, 2001, anon afterwards the achievement of Windows XP.

It is the absence browser alien with Windows XP and Windows Server 2003, and was aswell fabricated accessible for Windows NT 4.0, Windows 98, Windows 98 SE, Windows Me, Windows 2000, and Windows Home Server (a acquired of Windows Server 2003). IE6 SP1 is the endure adaptation of Internet Explorer accessible for Windows NT 4.0, Windows 98, Windows 98 SE, Windows Me, and Windows 2000. Although Internet Explorer 6 was abolished by Internet Explorer 7 in October 2006, Microsoft still supports it in Windows XP SP3.

This adaptation of Internet Explorer is currently broadly criticized for its aegis issues and abridgement of abutment for avant-garde web standards, authoritative common appearances in "worst tech articles of all time" lists, with some publications labeling it as the "least defended software on the planet."2 Because a abundant allotment of the web admirers still uses the anachronous browser (especially in China), campaigns accept been accustomed to animate users to advancement to newer versions of Internet Explorer or about-face to altered browsers. Some websites accept alone abutment for IE6 entirely, a lot of notable of which is Google bottomward abutment in some of its services.34

Over ten years afterwards its release, it continues to accept patches for aegis vulnerabilities.5