Latest news from Redmond is that they are now very very close to killing off the worst (in my opinion) web browser known to man.
Created during a time of “non-standard” thinking, it has been the pain in the arse browser for web developers ever since.
Latest figures show that its now less than 1% of users in the USA, and only 7.7% in the world (china being more than half of that use).
In my personal experience, the people still using IE6 work for dinosaur companies with tied down desktops that run ancient bespoke built IE6 optimised (read: crap web development) internal business applications. These companies should hang their heads in shame for the last 8 (at least) years of web development hell for all of us.
Microsoft are so sure that it’s nearly dead, they even baked a cake to celebrate.
Let’s just hope it’s not a fruit cake, and lasts for too long!
