Firstly, I doubt all will go as M$ plans it will. Especially with the
market share percentages, that are supposed to drop to less than 1%.

Secondly, if you guys, who wish to drop IE6, wish to work with APAC
customers, that might be a tad problematic to have both wishes granted at
the same time. Last week I was able to see what browsers several large
Asian companies tend to use. IE6 - IE8. 20% IE6, 20% IE7, 30% IE8, rest -
other browsers.

Thirdly, I totally second voices about  corporate lock-downs and intranet
apps. From earlier IE6 thread here, I learned about how M$ changed their
promises of their help feature working through network, due to it having
security flaws. Whoever created nice intranet apps with it, blocked or
filtered updates long ago, so that it kept working.

If not, they lond had to rewrite the apps. Since rewriting a program you
use internally is nowhere near as visible and/or profitable as writing new
software for your clients... you don't rewrite. Unless you absolutely must.
So M$ update won't do zitch.

Finally, if you wanna drop IE6 - drop it. State loud and clear you do not
support any browser that's older than 5 years due to rapid web tech
development. Or price much higher for it. You should be able to tell who
your clients are and what they use, so you should be able to tell if this
gonna fly or not. And there's good JS library out there sniffing browsers,
quite accurate. Can't recall it's name but should be easy to find via
Google. So it's quite easy to log - at least those that do NOT turn off JS.

pozdrawiam,
Tomasz Borek
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