Google to Drop IE6 YouTube Support on March 13
Google has said that YouTube will no longer support for IE6 on March 13.
March 16 is the day when YouTube will stop working for people still living in the stone age and running IE6. The announcement comes at a time when a significant amount of companies with a Web presence are desperate to see IE6 disappear forever. Many businesses have yet to upgrade to newer versions of Internet Explorer because of the expense involved in upgrading a large network of computers all at once.
Ars Technica was the first to notice that an updated Q&A from YouTube details support for Internet Explorer 6 will no longer be available after March 13. In a post entitled, "Solve a Problem: Upgrading your browser" Google compares using an out of date browser to running a steam engine along the tracks of a bullet train, "It may still work, but it doesn't take advantage of the speed and security of the new technology."

YouTube also plans to cut support for anything older than IE7, Firefox 3.0, Chrome 4.0, and Safari 3.0 as an "older browser." The message above will show up every two weeks indefinitely until the user upgrades their browser.
Thank you for your lousy programming that redesigned and Revolutionised the spyware industry!
You lined up the pockets of technicians like me with millions of dollars while we format PCs left and right,
Thank you very much! You will be missed... in a weird bittersweet way.
But what happens if they do randomize it and Google still comes up first?
not true, ie upgrades are free there is no reason to pay for new browser when the company provides it for free. it's called being lazy
The browser doesn't upgrade it's self! It costs money and time out of the IT staff's budget that in this day of cutbacks simply does not exist. In addition to that, some of us who manage an software that is dependent on IE simply don't work on IE7 or IE8 yet... Sometimes wanting to upgrade is not enough. My organization WANTS to upgrade, but some of our vendors have not written IE8 (or 7) support into their software. Seriously, if you plan to use IE to render your GUI, for the love of God plan for IE updates!
Get Ubuntu, it's fantastic for slow PCs! (And fast ones too).
Do you KNOW that the drivers fully support all ATI AIW functions (video in/out/tuner/multi-display)? It would make a lot more sense for me to replace the motherboard/CPU with something faster (and perhaps even update to XP)... rather than retrain my wife on Linux and have her dual boot for everything else she and the kids already use her computer for. Plus, I still use that system a test platform for software development.
You sir are a Chevy hater
No they can't do that, if users still want to use IE6 then that's their choice; they just might have to get used to the fact that less and less websites function properly with their browser.
There comes a point where backwards compatibility becomes more of a burden than it's worth- and that's the right time to drop support. 16-bit programs in Windows being one example. Why anyone would want to run 16-bit software on Windows in 2010 is beyond me...
I wonder if I'm the only one who caught the Paul Simon reference