[pnh102]

Microsoft needs to exit the browser racket. IE8 is crap. But lucky for us, we can just get away with putting in a single meta tag to force it to behave like IE7 so we do not need yet another set of browser-specific hacks to make web pages work in IE8.

As for IE6, why is anyone still using this. No one uses Netscape 4 anymore, right?

[MediaMole]

There is something wrong with a lot of corporate IT depts. IE6 is a steaming load, but it’s the steaming load the IT managers know, so it lives on as another way to crush the souls of those working in a corporate environment.

[RayChuang88]

I've been hearing the occasional rumor that Microsoft will develop an Internet Explorer 9.0, which will add HTML 5.0 support (a number of corporate customers want HTML 5.0 so they could run Google Wave). And unlike previous IE releases, IE 9.0 may switch to a completely new rendering engine that will be much faster and will work with HTML 5.0 (Microsoft Research demonstrated a test browser using a totally new HTML rendering engine about a year ago).