Microsoft is committed to continuing to support IE6

Support for a five-year-old browser like Internet Explorer 6 will not disappear overnight, even if the IE7 version is released later this year - Microsoft's announcement on August 31 said.

Also according to Microsoft, security updates for IE6 will continue to be produced and updated. " The policy to support IE 6 SP1 will not change after the release of IE7. Wherever IE 6 SP1 is supported, it will continue to be supported until the next operating system expires. (expiration of support), "said Christopher Vaughan, director of Microsoft's browser development team.

Vaughan also reminds users that they will not be required to upgrade to IE7. " Of course we hope users will upgrade, but that does not mean coercion. We will continue to keep IE6 customers safe in case you cannot or do not upgrade to the version. IE7, "Vaughan said.

Microsoft recently said it considers the IE7 upgrade a very important plan. IE7 is expected to be distributed via an automatic update mechanism - " Automatic Updates ", but the company also issued tools to prevent users from being forced to upgrade to the new version of IE.

The latest version of IE7 is Release Candidate (RC) 1 , which was announced last week by Microsoft. The final version of IE7 will be released by Microsoft later this year.