Six months ago Google announced that in phasing out the obsolete internet explorer 6 it will now removing support from Orkut and Youtube and started pushing its user for modern browsers.
Google has now given specific notice to users that now Google is removing its support from youtube users from March 13, 2010 via a page on Google.com titled Solve a Problem: Upgrading your browser:
Support stops on March 13th. Stopped support essentially means that some future features on YouTube will be rolled out that won’t work in older browsers.
YouTube will have an interstitial appear when users on older browser try to watch a video on YouTube. Google says the interstitial will show up indefinitely every two weeks until the user upgrades to the most recent version of their browser. Google deems anything below IE7, Firefox 3.0, Chrome 4.0, and Safari 3.0 as an “older browser.” Users on these browsers will still be able to watch YouTube videos, but additional features that Google plans to roll out may not be supported in these older browsers.
Late month, Google announced it will end old browser support for Google Docs and Google Sites on March 1, 2010 and earlier this month, the company announced it would start to phase out support for these browsers for Google Mail and Google Calendar by year end. Google is pushing both enterprise and consumer users towards newer browsers on all its Web properties.
Google’s stance on IE6 varies from Microsoft’s because the search giant does not need to support Windows XP, the operating system with which IE6 first shipped, as long as Redmond (which will support XP and IE6 until April 8, 2014). Microsoft, on the other hand, which has stated time and time again that it wants to see IE6 disappear as much as anyone else, refuses to force anyone to upgrade (though it’s worth noting that the software giant’s Office Web Apps won’t support IE6 either, just like Google Docs) and says the decision is ultimately up to the user.
Microsoft is trying to push users to upgrade by touting IE8’s many features over IE6, particularly in the area of security. So far, this has worked relatively well, as IE8 is the most popular browser, although IE6 is still used by about 20 percent of surfers worldwide, according to NetApplications.
One more getting down for Internet Explorer 6
Six months ago Google announced that in phasing out the obsolete internet explorer 6 it will now removing support from Orkut and Youtube and started pushing its user for modern browsers.
Google has now given specific notice to users that now Google is removing its support from youtube users from March 13, 2010 via a page on Google.com titled Solve a Problem: Upgrading your browser:
Support stops on March 13th. Stopped support essentially means that some future features on YouTube will be rolled out that won’t work in older browsers.YouTube will have an interstitial appear when users on older browser try to watch a video on YouTube. Google says the interstitial will show up indefinitely every two weeks until the user upgrades to the most recent version of their browser. Google deems anything below IE7, Firefox 3.0, Chrome 4.0, and Safari 3.0 as an “older browser.” Users on these browsers will still be able to watch YouTube videos, but additional features that Google plans to roll out may not be supported in these older browsers.
Late month, Google announced it will end old browser support for Google Docs and Google Sites on March 1, 2010 and earlier this month, the company announced it would start to phase out support for these browsers for Google Mail and Google Calendar by year end. Google is pushing both enterprise and consumer users towards newer browsers on all its Web properties.
Google’s stance on IE6 varies from Microsoft’s because the search giant does not need to support Windows XP, the operating system with which IE6 first shipped, as long as Redmond (which will support XP and IE6 until April 8, 2014). Microsoft, on the other hand, which has stated time and time again that it wants to see IE6 disappear as much as anyone else, refuses to force anyone to upgrade (though it’s worth noting that the software giant’s Office Web Apps won’t support IE6 either, just like Google Docs) and says the decision is ultimately up to the user.
Microsoft is trying to push users to upgrade by touting IE8’s many features over IE6, particularly in the area of security. So far, this has worked relatively well, as IE8 is the most popular browser, although IE6 is still used by about 20 percent of surfers worldwide, according to NetApplications.
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After nine months of launch of Google Chrome Browser with 30 million users worldwide. Now google plans to introduce its Operating System named Google Chrome OS. According to Google its an natural extension of the operating System.
It is an open source project, lightweight operating systems that will be initially set the market in for netbooks. Later this year Google has plan to open the source code of its operating system and it will be available for consumers in netbooks in the second half of 2010.
Tags: 30 Million, Better Computing, Computer Users, Consumers, Digs, Docs, Email, Google, Launch, Microsoft Operating System, Netbooks, Nine Months, Open Source Project, Operating Systems, Questions And Answers, Second Half, Simplicity, Software Updates, Source Code, Wasting Time
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People were wondering that why Google always shows beta tag on its application for example Gmail which is out for 5 years. People were being puzzled with the definition of the beta which means that software is not ready for use and its in testing mode so Google has announced that its application like Google Calender, Gmail, Google Docs and Google talk will be out of beta version. Following is the post at google official blog:
Tags: Beta Beta, Beta Software, Beta Version, Calender, Consumer Versions, Delegation, Docs, Enhancements, Gmail, Google, Google Apps, Lotus, Mail, Microsoft Exchange, More Than Five Years, Prime Time, Product Logos, Reliability, Situation Puzzles, Trial Phase
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Have you ever though of losing all the important data of yours. The data that you have on twitter, photobucket, Google docs, delicious, wordpress, flicker etc is lost what you will do. This is a major concern and you should also get a backup of what you are uploading to these sites.
Now the question arises is how to backups of these things. There are two ways to do this backup exercise.
Tags: Docs, Earth 2, Exercise, Flicker, Google, Lost, Notepad Document, Photobucket, Two Ways, Upload, Uploaded, Wake Up Call, Word Document, Wordpress
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