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IE6 is still > 22% in China. 4.4% globally.
http://www.ie6countdown.com/

I guess you have a point if you're selling to China: http://www.ie6countdown.com/

A shitload of people is probably hoarding exploits to use when MS stops patching the product. Once that happens,it's gonna be fun to watch.

What makes you think that these users are updating their systems right now? Most installations in China are pirated and have updates disabled to prevent them from being disabled after an update.

According to http://www.ie6countdown.com/ 24% of users in China use IE6. Microsoft has issued an update that forces an upgrade to IE8, which means that these users either have updates disabled or explicitly opted out of upgrading the browser through a special process; most likely the first.

Having no new patches won't change anything.

I tried to install ie6 but it said I had a newer version of Internet Exploer. I don't have any version of Internet Explorer installed. Although it's a little odd MS has that still up since they also have this site. Man. Look at China. Maybe it isn't the Chinese government hacking. A lot of those machines are probably botnets. Like a black market cloud.

Much longer than that. It's not like millions of pirate copies of XP out there in China, Japan and South Korea ever get support from MS.
Businesses with legal copies, holding on for dear life to IE6's activeX is probably not as large a number anyway.

Microsoft knows everyone uses old browsers until they're told not to.

Wanna bet the chinese aren't worried about keeping decade old software running?

Considering China is the country with the highest percentage of people still using IE6, you picked a really poor example.

Internet Explorer 6 is dead, unless you have visitors from China and a few other Asian countries: http://ie6countdown.com/ [ie6countdown.com] (That's a Microsoft site!)

If you visit that site with JavaScript off, you get the nice statement:
"100% | 2011 MAR
of the world was using Internet Explorer 6, which was 8.1 percentage points less than the previous year"

Internet Explorer 6 is dead, unless you have visitors from China and a few other Asian countries: http://ie6countdown.com/ (That's a Microsoft site!)

According to Statcounter, IE6 currently has 1.8% market share in Europe and 2% in North America. Unless you KNOW that your customers are more likely than the average person to use IE6, there's no way to justify the extraordinary additional cost of supporting that rubbish browser.

Currently, the low level of fancy tricks support is IE7, which will have declined enough to be ignored in about two years. Besides, this neat background trick is easy to make degrade gracefully.

What is 100% true is Microsoft are happy to leave 60% of their customers using their old insecure browsers. Some of whom only bought there OS last year.

Microsoft doesn't want people using their old browsers so their site to persuade people to change must be a decoy? http://www.ie6countdown.com./ And pushing their new browsers via Windows Update unless you take steps to prevent it must be smoke and mirrors?

Speaking of unsubstantiated, citation please for people who only bought "there" OS last year and are on old insecure browsers?

And when you talk about moving off IE6, you should start with the app developers... But don't let that get in the way of the fun.

I'm taking about IE6/IE7/IE8 and will soon be taking IE9. The way you could tell is that I referring to the 60% market share it has currently. Do you really need a citation when you have market figures. Most people have there computers for five years, most of those 60% will be machines bought in those past five years. I don't talk about IE6 ever being a problem. I might talk about bundling a browser and making inseparable from the OS, or being dependent on Microsoft technology instead of Open Standards. I clicked a button and have Firefox installed...and can remove and replace it with a couple of clicks. XP users can't do that.

What is 100% true is Microsoft are happy to leave 60% of their customers using their old insecure browsers. Some of whom only bought there OS last year.

Microsoft doesn't want people using their old browsers so their site to persuade people to change must be a decoy? http://www.ie6countdown.com./ And pushing their new browsers via Windows Update unless you take steps to prevent it must be smoke and mirrors?

Speaking of unsubstantiated, citation please for people who only bought "there" OS last year and are on old insecure browsers?

And when you talk about moving off IE6, you should start with the app developers... But don't let that get in the way of the fun.

It's a fairly old list which has been floating on the 'net for a long time. If we still had moderately sane (17 year) copyright terms, I guess it would be public domain right now regardless of whether fiction or collection. The present headline reminded me of it, although it has the bonus of being vacuous and unintentionally self-deprecating.

Even factoring in the People's OS, evidence shows that they have no OS chokehold over their supposedly oppressed citizens: By Microsoft's shamefaced anti-IE6 campaign figures, the Chinese are the kings of the IE6 holdout with 35% --a full 10% lead over the South Korean runner-ups. Other analysts placed China at 45% last November, when 15% was the world's average.

An older article article stresses CCW Research's statement that 33% of new PC buyers uninstall that Linux derivative right off the bat, but the PC shop tends to do just prior to the sale that for them as a loyalty perk. More unsettling is that IE6 isn't the only IE... IE7 and IE8 numbers has to push the balance even further away from the People's OS --new pirated PC's don't easily get XP even in the USA, especially in the mobile form-factors. That counts for fewer Windows downupgrades to XP that would otherwise beef up IE6's numbers in China.

Switch browser vendor I would say ! :-)

Actually Microsoft just recommends people to upgrade to IE8:

http://www.ie6countdown.com/