It's not great. A large amount of the nice fancy stuff that makes designing a website easier and more efficient is not available. But it is a huge step up from

It's not great. A large amount of the nice fancy stuff that makes designing a website easier and more efficient is not available. But it is a huge step up from IE6 so if a large chunk of those people suddenly find themselves at IE8 then the world will be better for it. I wish MS would go back and try to update the IE8 render engine so that it can use some of the newer standards of IE9 or even IE10.