Google’s social network Orkut reportedly plans to phase out support for Internet Explorer 6, igniting a long-simmering debate over continued use of the 8-year-old version of the browser. The current version is IE8. Microsoft intends to maintain support for IE6 in conjunction with its support for Windows XP — the OS that originally delivered it. Extended support for XP is scheduled to end in 2014. IE6 is still the choice of a significant portion of the computer-using community; however, many developers have come to loathe it.
