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• Hey Matt,
  
  Did you consider that perhaps Google's advert has less to do with "self-preferential treatment" and more to do with functionality?
  
  Experienced web designers will tell you that IE6 is quite a pain to design for, most notably the (in)famous Peek-a-boo bug. (There are some bugs in IE7 as well.) Certain features and layouts either look wrong or fail to work at all.
  
  In respect to functionality, Firefox, Opera (thanks SuezanneC), and Chrome all do something that no public version of IE can do: display web pages that function according to the code 99% of the time. Microsoft is trying to fix this in IE8 (best of luck to them).
  
  I'm sure that fellow web designers will back me up. There are a plethora of reasons why IE6 should be cast aside, and quite frankly, I can't blame Google for promoting their own browser. Don't view this as Microsoft bashing! In reply to: "Google's Microsoft-esque landgrab for IE's market share"

  January 2, 2009

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