The reality is that IE is not going away ... and IE7 is better, IE8 even better....than IE6. 

My suggestion - via Scott and others -- is ANY current browser would be better than IE6. 

Frankly, the biggest issue is many corporate sites that have just not changed.  IE6 was arround for so long that many sites would break on use of any other Browser .. so they have stayed with IE6.  However slowly, things are improving. 

But I was a little shocked at my site's results  ( possibly a poor SQL Select).   So I am going to suggest people upgrade

Paul.

I agree that this is the major issue. I just spent 2 years working for a Fortune 100 company that had 40,000 desktop's all running Windows 2000. As you can't run IE 7/8 on Windows 2000 they're stuck on IE6. They also refuse to run Firefox as it's not enterprise ready i.e. theres no easy to deploy via Active directory/SMS pacakages, and large enterprises generally have a very dim view on auto-updating software such as Firefox (it took me six months to get an exemption to run it on my development machine). Many of these enterprises will only move browser when they move OS.

Cathal

I also wish people wouldn't drop litter and that politicians wouldn't waste money on stupid programs to make themselves more popular, but all my bleating apparently has had no effect.  Thus I have learned to live in the world I am in and accept it.

I suggest that people accept that IE6, like a healthy but annoying relative, is here to stay for some time yet.  Yes it sucks, but you're still going to have to deal with it.  May as well just get on with the job of backwards compatilbity checking.  Just don't try and do anything too fancy and things should work OK in IE6.  The last thing a corporate IT person wants to hear is how bad IE6 is.  They know it is bad.  They just can't convince the budget holders to loosen up and approve a company-wide rollout of another browser, when there really is no cost-benefit that will stack up.