Not really. As the other poster said, IE was intentionally abandoned after Microsoft "won" the browser war to drag out the desktop market a few more years. Honestly, until the last few years, web development technology stagnated HEAVILY because of Microsoft's abandonment of IE. They were able to vastly slow the forward movement of web technology for almost a decade.
The customer has chosen (even if the decision was made for them), and that is something that we as developers have to live with.