Anyone else as happy as i am to finally here this? 
Very surprised about a quarter of South Koreans using IE6 with their 100Mb+ internet connections.
Getting China off it would be easy. The government just needs to say âeverybody off IE6 now!â and itâs done.
Yea but thats what happens when a countries internet structure grows before a user is knowledgeable in which browser make a better web experience.
All in all after 10-11 years developers can finally put to rest all those annoying CSS hacks, PNG fixes and who can forget the double margin. Personally for me this is the best news i could ever hear browser wise since i have been holding back from HTML5 and CSS3 mainly due to the lack of IE support.
Now though i think ill start moving forward since i see IE 7&8 are starting to see the new web structure move through which i think in the next year or so will see a greater web experience arise and more users learning web development.
PS: I was so excited i mis-spelled âhearâ 
I used to believe that all browsers should be treated equally, and that browsers after IE6 would be fine to deal with. Naturally, over the years, this opinion has greatly deteriorated after every year of putting up with IE6.
I do not ignore IE6, I completely de-style it to give users a plain, but usable web page. IE6 users are more than aware that their browser is unusable, and Iâm willing to bet that most of them are forced in some way to use it (i.e. work). As conversions are poor from IE6 users it is not worth paid developer time to support this area.
IE6 wonât die overnight, and in a few years when IE6 is finally dead IE7 will continue to live on as the browser that doesnât fully support CSS 2.1 (if I remember correctly) that everyone seems to want to continue using. If/when HTML5 takes off weâll probably have the same problems all over again. The only way forward for me is to write correct code that works to the standard and only tailor my code when there are a sizable number of users to support.
I stopped supporting IE6 two or three years ago. If webmasters didnât support old, buggy, obsolete browsers, people would have no choice but to upgrade.
You web developers who support IE6 are the reason that piece of garbage has held on so long. You are what keeps it alive. No support means no choice but to upgrade.
i upgraded from IE6 a long long time ago, and then completely said goodbye to it, Google Chrome and firefox are the browsers for me,
On a related note the final version of IE9 was released a few days ago, through youâve got to be using Windows Vista or above. Probably a very large % of those using IE6 overall are probably in employment and/or educational establishments. imo any website should still be usable by people browsing with IE6, even if itâs a simplified version that they get served up.