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The most hated browser in the world is finally dead:

After the release of Windows XP in 2001 and for a few years that followed, Internet Explorer 6 was the biggest, most important browser in the world. And for longer, it has been the buggy browser that's overstayed its welcome. Microsoft announced it would support IE6 through April of this year back in 2009, and today (along with XP and Office 2003) is the last day Microsoft will provide updates. Unless you're an old user who couldn't care less or are somehow nostalgic for a broken web, it's finally time to say goodbye.

Internet Explorer 6 IS, BY NOW, A BAD JOKE

is almost universally reviled, and for good reason. Microsoft got cocky in the mid-aughts after beating down Netscape Navigator; because Internet Explorer overall held more than 90 percent of the market, it took a solid five years before IE7 debuted. Meanwhile, security issues slipped through massive cracks, with fixes coming in few and far between. (Nevermind the fact that IE6 was never fully standards compliant.) It got so bad that full-blown campaigns were launched calling for its death. User antipathy contributed directly to browsers like Firefox and Chrome being able to wrest users away from IE in general, and you can generally see a distrust for Microsoft's actually good browsers to this day. Even Redmond got in on the joke.

Unfortunately, the 12-year-old browser still commands 4.15 percent of the market, so it's not completely gone. So do your loved ones a favor and upgrade them to literally anything else. They'll thank you for it.

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Nokia X Android smartphone listed online at Rs. 8,500 with March 15 availability :

Nokia's first Android smartphone, the Nokia X, is now listed at an online retailer in India, with a price of Rs. 8,500. The retailer claims the Nokia X smartphone will be available from 15 March 2014.

The Finnish manufacturer had soon after its MWC 2014 event, listed the Nokia X, Nokia X+ and Nokia XL dual-SIM variants on its India site, without pricing or availability details. At the MWC 2014 launch, the company had said the Nokia X would go on sale 'immediately' in Africa, Asia-Pacific, Europe, India, Latin America, and the Middle East.

The Nokia X has been listed on the Mobile Store and was first spotted by Maktech blog. The Nokia X is available in its Black, Green, Cyan, Yellow, Red, and White colour variants. Of course since this is a third-party store, one cannot be certain if this will be the official launch price, whenever the phone is unveiled in India.

Microsoft paying Samsung Mobile, Sony and others to make Windows Phone devices: Report

Microsoft seems desperate to have more OEMs to help its cause in increasing its Windows Phone ecosystem; at if a new rumour is to be believed, which claims the Redmond giant is offering incentives to some major handset manufacturers like Samsung, Sony, and Huawei among others.

Mobile Review's Eldar Murtazin made the statement, saying Microsoft is offering Samsung $1.2 billion, Sony $0.5 billion; Huawei $0.6 billion and others $0.3 billion in incentives to make a Windows Phone device in 2014.

The tweet said, "Windows phone 8 in 2014 - Samsung 1.2 bln USD, Sony 0.5 bln, Huawei Device 0.6 bln, others - 0.3 bln. Thats "support" from MS to develop one (1!)hs."

Another tweet by Murtazin claims that the company is offering the alleged amount of money to these companies to make at least one Windows Phone model. The tweet reads, "Microsoft going to pay to each company for creating one wp8 model. No matter how they call this money, it's not a real business for MS."

Further, Murtazin suggests that Sony is already doing well in terms on revenue this year, thanks to Microsoft's incentive and writes, "For instance, Sony with 0.5 bln from Microsoft already profitable in 2014, will meet internal goals in terms of money around September." The tweet was first spotted by Unwired View.

Notably, Murtazin was the first to claim that the Redmond giant had been offering Samsung a whopping $1 billion incentive to continue working on Windows Phone devices back in December last year.

A report on Wednesday suggested that Samsung might be soon joining the Windows Phone 8 smartphone league. A Samsung device dubbed SM-W750V was spotted in a Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) listing, and also on the UA profile, which has been accessible at company's mobile official site.

Sony is also reportedly considering launching a Windows Phone device, in an attempt to move away from being a single operating system handset maker. Pierre Perron, head of Sony Mobile Europe, confirmed that the company was in talks with Microsoft.