I'm jealous that google can so easily drop support for old IE.
Meanwhile I had to go on-site to troubleshoot an issue in a pre-sp2 IE6 environment just last week. They didn't install security updates because "they break some of our in-house apps". For security reasons the system was isolated from the internet, hence the on-site debugging. The bug they had was fixed in sp2, which is why it didn't appear in our test environment. They did have an upgrade planned ... to IE8. So, yes, jealous is the sentiment for me.
On the other hand, I've not come across anything that's in modern browsers that I couldn't get to work on IE6, with appropriate (sometimes flash-based) fallbacks. It just requires more work.
Meanwhile I had to go on-site to troubleshoot an issue in a pre-sp2 IE6 environment just last week. They didn't install security updates because "they break some of our in-house apps". For security reasons the system was isolated from the internet, hence the on-site debugging. The bug they had was fixed in sp2, which is why it didn't appear in our test environment. They did have an upgrade planned ... to IE8. So, yes, jealous is the sentiment for me.
On the other hand, I've not come across anything that's in modern browsers that I couldn't get to work on IE6, with appropriate (sometimes flash-based) fallbacks. It just requires more work.