On July 3rd, 2008 the excellent web-application company 37Signals announced the phasing out of support for IE6 for their suite of online productivity tools. Someone had to go first.

Now it appears that Google has joined the chorus of web application suppliers who no longer want to support Microsoft’s IE6 browser. IE6 was release back in 2001, over eight gizillion years in internet time.

After coming across a few articles that claimed Google was giving IE6 the boot, the closest I could come to a primary source declaration from Google was in the Supported Browser section of their GMail help section: