From the annals of innovation

Mary Jo Foley of Redmond Mag:

Some enterprise users built internal line-of-business applications around IE6 — and are now stuck with it. Others are planning to run Windows XP into the ground — or at least until 2014, when Microsoft officially ends support for it. And because IE6 is what’s built into XP, that’s what these companies are going to allow their users to run. Still, other firms have opted to use IE6 as a kind of blocking tool. They’re counting on the Microsoft legacy browser to fail to work with some popular sites, such as Facebook, Google Docs and Google Reader, and serve as a passive-aggressive way to prevent their users from accessing these sites on their work machines and on the company’s dime.

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