IE6 Almost Dead In the US

SharkLaser writes "Microsoft, and the whole tech world, is celebrating the fact that use of Internet Explorer 6 has dropped below one percent in the US. 'Time to pop open the champagne because, based on the latest data from Net Applications, IE6 usage in the US has now officially dropped below 1 per cent!,' said Roger Capriotti, director of Internet Explorer marketing. 'IE6 has been the punch line of browser jokes for a while, and we've been as eager as anyone to see it go away.'"

Comments

The headline should be moe like

[assertation]

"IE 6 is STILL alive, WTF??!!"

I feel sad for the few people left still using it. Probably someone in a big org where some vital piece of software was written only with IE 6 in mind.

Re:No reason to celebrate now.

[man_of_mr_e]

Actually, yes. IE6, at the time of its release was the most standards compliant browser on the market. Seriously.

There were many articles at the time discussing this. Don't believe me? There's still articles around that discuss this. For instance:

http://www.quora.com/Why-has-Microsoft-failed-to-make-Internet-Explorer-web-standards-compliant-in-spite-of-years-of-browser-market-share-loss

It's just plain revisionist history to suggest otherwise. IE's problem was that it was not updated as the standards evolved and were clarified, not that it was originally so vastly uncompliant.