Re:So in other words... (Score 1)

It's not always stupid, sometimes we are not given a choice. I still have IE6. Not because I want to but because my companies customers want to. Plenty of call centres still use IE6 and see updating as an expensive and unecessary task. They usually are running on severely locked down machines with no access to the internet or even the intranet in some cases. So the risk to them not upgrading is pretty low versus the cost of regression testing what might be quite a large number of different applications and not to forget the additional cost of fixing the issues found from testing. So for my development environment I just put my IE6 in a readonly VM, I also have one for IE7 and IE8. The appserver and databases live elsewhere. It reduces the risk of infection and allows me to disable unecessary features as I *only* need the browser for one task.