At the end of January, Google announced that it would phase out support for older browsers, including Internet Explorer 6 (IE6), starting on March 1st. You can read the announcement here.

As we mentioned here last August, Internet Explorer 6 doesn’t conform to the current HTML and CSS programming standards. It - and other older browsers - are also more vulnerable to cyber-criminals; a vulnerability in Internet Explorer 6 was used to attack Google and other companies in December.

In practical terms, what does this mean for IE6 users? (We know you’re still out there....) In their announcement, Google said that some of the functionality in their Google Docs and Sites editor may no longer be supported in the old browsers effective March 1st; impacts to Google Mail (Gmail) and Calendar will occur later in the year.

If your firm has considered upgrading, now’s the time... some firms skip straight to Internet Explorer 8 instead of 7; occasionally a law firm switches to Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome.