MS Support for 10 years mean that they will issue patches to critical bugs, exploits and so on for 10 years. However, IE6's support lifespan will not mean that

MS Support for 10 years mean that they will issue patches to critical bugs, exploits and so on for 10 years. However, IE6's support lifespan will not mean that it gets new CCS, Javascript, HTML 5 or ACID compliance features. IE 8 is the official fix for that. It does not mean that people should use IE6, or that MS will encourage people to use it. It does not mean that IE6 will necessarily will be "around" in the sense of having a significant browser market share. Default browser on a fresh install of XP, yes, unless an "XP reloaded edition" comes out.