March 1st 2010 – double tech D-day
Well, Groundhog Day has come, and with it the rodent prognosticators have come to a consensus with regards to how much more cold we’ll have to endure. Don’t let that get in the way of getting a jump on spring cleaning though.
At the beginning of March, two things happen that will probably affect a large number of people. First, if you’re using Google Apps, and for some reason still use Internet Explorer 6 (which is still estimated at a shockingly high 10% of all internet users), you’ll start running into problems with Google Docs and the Google Sites editor. Google is switching over to newer standards which the older version of IE doesn’t support. A few other older browsers are on the chopping block.
Also on March 1st, the Windows 7 Release Candidate expires, which means that starting that day, it will start shutting down every two hours. Of course, anyone who was bold enough to run the pre-release was probably already aware of this, so if you’re going to transition to the full OS, make sure everything is backed up.
As for the changes at Google, you can see the pertinent text, including a list of dropped browser support
In order to continue to improve our products and deliver more sophisticated features and performance, we are harnessing some of the latest improvements in web browser technology. This includes faster JavaScript processing and new standards like HTML5. As a result, over the course of 2010, we will be phasing out support for Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 as well as other older browsers that are not supported by their own manufacturers.
We plan to begin phasing out support of these older browsers on the Google Docs suite and the Google Sites editor on March 1, 2010. After that point, certain functionality within these applications may have higher latency and may not work correctly in these older browsers. Later in 2010, we will start to phase out support for these browsers for Google Mail and Google Calendar.
Google Apps will continue to support Internet Explorer 7.0 and above, Firefox 3.0 and above, Google Chrome 4.0 and above, and Safari 3.0 and above.
Starting this week, users on these older browsers will see a message in Google Docs and the Google Sites editor explaining this change and asking them to upgrade their browser. We will also alert you again closer to March 1 to remind you of this change.
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