The premise is simple: Internet Explorer 6 is antiquated, doesn’t support key web standards, and should be phased out. This isn’t about being anti-Microsoft, it’s about Microsoft’s lack of development in the browser market. With IE7/8 not available for Windows 2000, IE6 accounts for up to 20% of web usage, primarily via business users. Clients pressure designers to ‘force’ sites to work in IE6, and designers, not wanting to lose business, comply, using hacks and workarounds. This wastes time and money. Microsoft needs to fix this, designers need to unite, and we all need to move on.

I couldn’t agree more with that.

www.bringdownie6.com

So why is this such a big deal? Well as a web developer, I’m rather annoyed by the limitations and weird things IE does interpreting the code you put up together building a website layout. CSS can be a whole new world when working with an IE compared to for example CSS  made for Firefox or any other web browser. So this is actually good news for all us IE haters :)

Another thing to make this rumour a bit stronger is the fact that Firefox just got past IE as the most popular web browser around the world. So it’s not impossible that Microsoft might be taking their silly little stupid baby off the market for a while.

But surely IE coming off the market completely without the likes of me having to be worried about the IE CSS working is just dreaming for years to come. See the pain in the ass is that we do need to take you dummies into account as well when we make the websites since you’re still the majority in this modern world of ours ;)

Oh and where did I hear about this? Here it is:
[http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/379/1051379/microsoft-kill-internet-explorer]