I read f055's "Google phasing out support for Internet Explorer 6.0 and what does it mean?" today and started to reply. As I went allong it became somewhat of a blog post. So this is the reply.

I think ignorance is the greatest factor in keeping IE6 around. When you put an icon of a globe with the word 'Internet' below on the middle of an otherwise clean desktop everybody will use that for browsing the internet.

People dont care what their browser is (only webdevelopers and the [...]