Internet Explorer 6 is out of date. There’s no question of that, as Microsoft has now moved on to IE8. It has its critics, some of whom have even campaigned online against it. But some 15-20% of people still use IE6 as their browser, according to figures.
And Microsoft is standing by it. The company has said it will continue support for it until 2014. But it evidently wasn’t an easy decision, even for staff, as Amy Barzdukas, Microsoft’s general manager for Internet Explorer, told journalists in San Francisco:
