Often the reason given is that the corporate sector is tied to it through intranets and other applications that rely on it.
So, why not release IE6 as a single-site browser (SSB), like Mozilla's Prism for example?
- Corporates can run their intranets via the IE6 SSB
- The general-use browser can then be updated to the latest version (IE8), which has to make security easier for their IT department
- Microsoft can then officially drop support for IE6, and only need to support the SSB in its corporate environment
- The rest of us can breathe a sigh of relief as we watch IE6 usage fall rapidly!
It seems like a simple solution to me, but perhaps it's not that simple. Otherwise Microsoft would have done it already. Yes?