So why doesn't Microsoft just announce that they will no longer be supporting IE6? They have, it's the same as XP's (8 April 2014). You answer your own questi

So why doesn't Microsoft just announce that they will no longer be supporting IE6? They have, it's the same as XP's (8 April 2014). You answer your own question: products as widespread as IE6 cannot just be withdrawn overnight. It's quite a sensible move have the end-of-life the same as XP, when the corporate desktop moves from XP there IE6 will effectively be dead. Microsoft would like this to happen earlier I understand: it has to cost them money to maintain so much code.