Look how old this is! I post at SearchCommander.com now, and this post was published 18 years 4 months 4 days ago. This industry changes FAST, so blindly following the advice here *may not* be a good idea! If you're at all unsure, feel free to hit me up on Twitter and ask.
From the days when I owned a computer store in Portland Oregon, I’m still a Microsoft partner, and it was past my renewal.
While logged in to the Microsoft partner site, I attempt a renewal, and here’s the message I get…
You are using an unsupported Internet browser. Please use the most recent non-beta version of Internet Explorer to access this page. If you continue you will likely experience performance issues. Please download (link removed here) this supported version or proceed to the PMC page you requested.
What seems to be the problem? I’m running a 100% updated version of Internet Explorer 6, which is NOT a beta release of IE7, and that’s never been on my machine.
I decided to follow the link, thinking that perhaps, I really needed updating. Of course the link took me to the IE6 Service Pack 1 page, from 2002, and any attmpted installation failed with a message telling me I had a newer version.
Then I followed the link for “Get the latest version of Internet Explorer for your PC from Microsoft Update” and that went to the update site, which told me I was current.
Ha! I had to use Firefox to renew…Don’t ya love computers?
