Microsoft is gradually saying goodbye to Internet Explorer 6

After a few days ago, the level of use of Internet Explorer 6 in the US fell below one percent, Microsoft began to celebrate the demise of a browser released 10 years ago. According to Net Applications, the United States has joined countries such as Austria, Poland, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Norway, where they also already use less than 1 percent of the population. On the approach is the Czech Republic, Mexico, Ukraine, Portugal and the Philippines, where this figure varies around 1 percent. China is still the anti-leader with 25 percent.



Marketing director Roger Capriotti on the Windows Team Blog blog stated that IE 6 these days is only a source of jokes from web developers, and since they launched IE6countdown , this site has been visited to speed up the transition to more modern browsers. 2.75 million people, which suggests that people are interested in this. He also said that another reason is the fact that IE6 does not support HTML 5, which means it cannot be a full-fledged player in the browser market.
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Hacker News Seattle meeting, where it was announced that the use of IE6 in the United States fell below 1 percent

After that, Capriotti encouraged the rest of the world to switch to new browsers, such as IE8 or IE9, by the end of 2012.

From myself: I personally, as a web developer, this situation can not but rejoice. What do you think?