can we worry less about IE 6 issues since there seems to be upgrade push? [closed]

Question

I noticed that on my Vista and XP machines, the automatic update is asking me to upgrade to IE 8 (from IE 7). News article also says people with IE 6 also get such suggestion.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10218185-56.html

(i don't have IE 6 on any of my machine except an XP virtual machine version which might be different from the retail version, so is that really happening?)

So probably after some time when we look at the website log stats and see IE 6 falling below 2, or 3%, we can worry less about the IE 6 bugs.

(by the way, won't some machine out there running IE 6 be too slow if running the new and heavier IE 8?)

Answer 1

You can't rely on general statistics, you need to look at your own particular customer pool. There might still be corporate environments where they won't upgrade for a while, because they have legacy web apps that depend on the browser version or just won't spare the manpower to coordinate an upgrade.