For years web developers have been begging and petitioning for this to happen. Now it's finally just around the corner.
Microsoft has launched a campaign of it’s own to free the world of it’s dreadful (to developers) browser from yesteryear. Go to http://www.ie6countdown.com/ to see for yourself the steady decline of usage which is now finally below 10%. That means that web developers no longer need to put time and effort to make an IE6 specific version of their websites. Ain’t that a nice new year’s gift? Microsoft thinks so too, even though the decline in IE6 doesn’t necessarily result in an incline for newer explorers. More and more people are turning to chrome and firefox. Which is fine, cause anything is better than IE6. And a year from now at this rate it will finally be extinct.