Google stops Supporting IE6

As it may come to no surprise to tech people google has announced it will stop supporting IE6. As of March 1st, 2010 google will no longer support IE6. Now you may think "well no big deal, people should be upgraded already." If this is your thoughts unfortunately although we would think most IT personnel would take care of this and have their client machines updated past IE6 you would be surprised at the number of users still using the browser. In just doing a quick google search on the current IE browser and versions, I found this graph which displays a shocking fact.

2009	IE8	IE7	IE6	Firefox	Chrome	Safari	Opera
December	13.5%	12.8%	10.9%	46.4%	9.8%	3.6%	2.3%
November	13.3%	13.3%	11.1%	47.0%	8.5%	3.8%	2.3%
October	12.8%	14.1%	10.6%	47.5%	8.0%	3.8%	2.3%
September	12.2%	15.3%	12.1%	46.6%	7.1%	3.6%	2.2%
August	10.6%	15.1%	13.6%	47.4%	7.0%	3.3%	2.1%
July	9.1%	15.9%	14.4%	47.9%	6.5%	3.3%	2.1%
June	7.1%	18.7%	14.9%	47.3%	6.0%	3.1%	2.1%
May	5.2%	21.3%	14.5%	47.7%	5.5%	3.0%	2.2%
April	3.5%	23.2%	15.4%	47.1%	4.9%	3.0%	2.2%
March	1.4%	24.9%	17.0%	46.5%	4.2%	3.1%	2.3%
February	0.8%	25.4%	17.4%	46.4%	4.0%	3.0%	2.2%
January	0.6%	25.7%	18.5%	45.5%	3.9%	3.0%	2.3%

Although over the years/months IE6 has grown less and less popular. You can see last month still 10.9% of people still use the browser.