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re: Upgrade IE6 to IE8
Tuesday, February 23, 2010 at 10:28 am
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Posted by JeanK (6 messages posted)


Thank you so much for your reply really appreciate it. It was expected that IE7/IE8 would not compatible with W2k to upgrade. May be it is time for me to get a new computer but I am so used to my old friend W2k and it is hard to give it up ;-). Thanks again for your reply. JeanK


On Tuesday, February 23, 2010 at 9:29 am, C K wrote:
>There are changes in IE 7 and later that are not compatible with W2K so installing
>it is blocked. Parts of the core of W2K would need to be updated and that isn't
>going to happen. In fact, IE7 for instance, won't install on anything less than
>Win XP SP2. It wouldn't function correctly even if it did install on W2K. Your
>only choice is installing another browser that will work with W2K SP4 on the sites
>that will require something higher than IE6. I will have to go to another browser
>when forced too, so you aren't alone.
>
>Google will also stop supporting IE 6 for mail etc. In time, searching with Google
>will not work correctly either, which has already started happening..


Written in response to:
re: Upgrade IE6 to IE8 (C K: Tuesday, February 23, 2010 at 9:29 am)

Responses to this message:
*re: Upgrade IE6 to IE8 (Steve: Thursday, February 25, 2010 at 6:55 am)

All messages in this thread [show all]
-Upgrade IE6 to IE8 (JeanK: Tue, Feb 23, 2010, 6:56 am)
-re: Upgrade IE6 to IE8 (C K: Tue, Feb 23, 2010, 9:29 am)
-re: Upgrade IE6 to IE8 (JeanK: Tue, Feb 23, 2010, 10:28 am)
-re: Upgrade IE6 to IE8 (Steve: Thu, Feb 25, 2010, 6:55 am)
-re: Upgrade IE6 to IE8 (JeanK: Thu, Feb 25, 2010, 11:53 am)
-re: Upgrade IE6 to IE8 (Steve: Tue, Mar 16, 2010, 7:31 am)
-Alternative solution for IE6 to IE8 upgrade (Penuginator: Sun, Apr 4, 2010, 11:48 am)
*re: Alternative solution for IE6 to IE8 upgrade (Emmanuel: Tue, Oct 12, 2010, 9:48 am)
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