Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe DENVER, March 5 (UPI) -- A Colorado design firm says it received flowers from Microsoft when it staged a "funeral" for the company's Internet Explorer 6 Web browser. The Aten Design Group of Denver held a tongue-in-cheek goodbye for the software Thursday evening after Google dropped support for it, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports. Advertisement A picture of the flowers Microsoft sent appears in the newspaper along with a card from Microsoft that reads "Thanks for the good times IE6, see you all @ MIX when we show a little piece of IE Heaven." The card is signed "The Internet Explorer Team @Microsoft." Released in 2001, Internet Explorer was the standard Web surfer for most users until 2006 when Microsoft launched IE7, CNN reports. Microsoft has consistently recommended that consumers upgrade to its latest version of Internet Explorer and acknowledges that IE6 is no longer the most efficient way to surf the Web.
