A Private, Reliable, and Flexible Internet Browsing Experience
Internet Explorer 6 is the next major update to the award-winning Internet Explorer technologies and provides a private, reliable, and flexible Internet browsing experience. Internet Explorer 6 includes many new and enhanced features that can simplify the daily tasks that you perform, while helping you to maintain the privacy of your personal information on the Web. The latest version of Internet Explorer has also taken steps to improve Web browser reliability with the option of fault-collection services. With the new innovative browser capabilities, including media playback, automatic picture resizing, and more, you can experience the Web the way you want.
Provides Simple Privacy Tools
Internet Explorer 6 lets you control how your personal information is used by Web sites you visit, so you don't have to worry about security or privacy. By providing simple tools, Internet Explorer 6 enables you to control the information that Web sites collect about you. It supports the Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P), a technology that the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is currently developing. P3P helps protect the privacy of users' personal information on the Internet by simplifying the process of deciding whether and under what circumstances personal information is disclosed to Web sites. Microsoft will continue to aid users in protecting their privacy on the Internet by building on current Web privacy features and providing additional control in future Internet Explorer releases.
Improves Web Browser Reliability
Internet Explorer 6 takes the great reliability of Internet Explorer and improves upon it, offering a more stable and error-free browsing experience. New fault-collection services help to identify potential problems that need to be fixed in future updates to Windows Internet technologies. If you have a problem, the Internet Explorer Error Reporting Tool automatically offers to extract information about the problem and upload the data to Microsoft for analysis.
Allows You to Experience the Web the Way You Want
Whether you use the Web to read e-mail, news, or sports reports, shop online, listen to music or play videos, or share your images and photos with friends, family, or colleagues, Internet Explorer 6 makes it easy, exciting, and fun.
Develop Rich Web-based Applications Quickly and Easily
Internet Explorer 6 extends the Windows platform to enable developers to build Web-based applications and develop informative content. Internet Explorer 6 provides enhanced support for standards-based Internet technologies and improves the ease and speed with which developers can take advantage of these technologies. Improvements to the programming model, such as enhanced DHTML features, further enrich the Windows Web development platform.
Increased Standards Support
Internet Explorer 6 offers a feature-rich platform for building Web-based applications and developing informative content for users. It provides full support for Document Object Model (DOM), level 1 and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), level 1, which enhance support for standards-based Internet technologies and improve the ease and speed with which developers can take advantage of these technologies. Internet Explorer 6 supports standards that ensure that pages run quickly, consistently, and without errors or failures in the browser.
Easier Than Ever to Deploy and Support
You can customize the Internet Explorer 6 technologies with the Internet Explorer Administration Kit (IEAK) 6
(this site is in English), so it's easier than ever to deploy and support. IEAK 6 provides powerful easy-to-use options designed to save administrators time and money in deploying and managing Web solutions.
From the end user simply browsing content on the Web, to the IT administrator deploying and maintaining a rich set of Windows Internet technologies, to the Web developer creating rich Web content, Internet Explorer 6 provides the freedom to experience the best of the Internet.
Windows 2000 users: Custom installation is not available for Internet Explorer 6 on Windows 2000 operating systems.