I've made the same suggestion to my company and we are going to adopt a pricing policy for IE6 in our future product releases (B2B). The bottom line is that it costs us more to support IE6 and it's a sunk cost. We've eaten the cost for a long time because we care about making our customers happy no matter the circumstance. However, on the verge of IE9 and HTML5, supporting IE6 is starting to show measurable effects on our development velocity, capability, and agility which impacts all of our customers regardless of browser.
I suspect many IT depts and software companies are eating this cost and it reduces the impetus to upgrade browsers. Business cares about the bottom line and they won't consider changes unless they see line items that will affect it.
I suspect many IT depts and software companies are eating this cost and it reduces the impetus to upgrade browsers. Business cares about the bottom line and they won't consider changes unless they see line items that will affect it.