[AndrewDucker]

Microsoft have breaking changes in the move from IE8 to IE9.

If your company is dependent on hundreds of in-house web apps, or worse - dependent on bought-in webapps that you can't fix yourself then being forced to upgrade is insanity.

Sure, Microsoft should release new versions of IE more quickly than they currently do, but they shouldn't be dropping support for older versions.

[mey]

Microsoft has been advertising that IE6 is being depreciated with their support agreements, any company migrating to Vista/7, and through IE7/IE8 and IE9 developer previews. Any IT department that hasn't picked up that hint that's been running for the past 4 years has no excuse. Just like Microsoft doesn't support Win95 anymore, they do have explicit ends to the support of their applications, and IE6 is certainly one of them.