swa66 - 9:56 am on Jun 30, 2009 (gmt 0)

Let's hope it'll finally get IE6 behind us forever and that it'll take a huge bite out of the installed base of IE7.

But the more noise they make about the ability to block and the upcoming "forced" upgrade the more they'll scare some out there into being ultra conservative and not upgrade.

From a CSS perspective getting the legacy IE version eradicated is critical in moving the web forward onto standards. Once we're there (I keep wondering how long it'll take) we'll have to tackle the next hurdle: IE8's lack of pre-CSS3 support that all the others already had in place long before it came along ...

Now WSUS means managed computers at a place of business, not the typical household computer. And since businesses are even more reluctant to upgrade to e.g. Vista than home users are (also it's easier for businesses to keep using XP on new hardware than for home users) I'd expect IE6 to still have a bastion in the businesses.

There's always hope ...