Microsoft is actively trying to help people move away from IE6 to later, faster and more secure versions of IE. If you haven't tried IE9 RC (Release Candidate - available from <www.microsoft.com/ie> ) then you will be very pleasantly surprised by the speed and usability enhancements - IE9 RC is certainly worth a try.
Below is are some extracts from <http://www.itnews.com.au/News/232365,microsoft-unveils-ie9-beta.aspx> - "Standards and speed to fend off browser rivals." By Nicole Kobie in San Francisco on Sep 16, 2010 3:53 PM
"Microsoft has released the beta for its next generation browser, Internet Explorer 9.
Aside from the already announced support for HTML5 and hardware accleration, Microsoft unveiled a clean new user interface, clever Windows 7 interface, and new security tools.
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As previously announced, IE9 supported hardware accleration, with its Chakra engine leveraging multicore CPUs. Microsoft claimed to be the first to use full HTML 5 hardware acceleration, using the GPU for graphics processing - a goal Chrome and Firefox were both working on.
Microsoft said the browser was not just cleaner and faster, but safer. A new download manager tool, SmartScreen filter, looked for malware in files, showing a warning only when necessary rather than popping up warning windows for all downloads."
Microsoft products like SharePoint, Outlook Web Access and Visual Studio now support standards compliant browsers, like IE8, IE9, Firefox and Safari. You can follow the progress of the world wide "retirement" of IE6 and IE6 support from websites at <http://www.ie6countdown.com/index.html>. Below is a snip from the homepage