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Because there are a _lot_ of internal business apps dependent on it. Many large businesses wrote applications using ActiveX, and still use them 10 years later.

Because there are a _lot_ of internal business apps dependent on it. Many large businesses wrote applications using ActiveX, and still use them 10 years later. MS have promised support for all components of Windows XP until 2014, and that includes IE6.

xyzzyb 14y ago
That explains why they still support IE6, but not why they developed IE7 through 9.