Will Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 finally kill IE6?

Microsoft's latest strike in the browser war, today's beta release of Internet Explorer 9, is designed primarily to take back market share lost to newer competitors Firefox and Google Chrome.

But Microsoft is also fighting a battle against its own technology, namely Internet Explorer 6. IE6 has been declared dead many times, but it's still the browser of choice for many users and businesses despite obvious security flaws in the 9-year-old program. Microsoft itself has urged users to dump IE6.

IE6 in death throes, usage drops below 5%

The kill IE6 campaign is definitely making progress. North American usage has dropped from 9.33% to just 4.17% in the last year, while nearly 50% of Web surfers use either IE7 or IE8, according to StatCounter.

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