<i>&gt; aggressively pushing to kill IE. In the not-so-distant future, IE won&#x27;t exist.</i><p>Well, Windows 7 and 8.1 will receive support until 2020 and 2023 respectively. That gives us at least four years of IE 11 being the &quot;new IE 6.&quot; (Yes, that is a bit of an overstatement, I remember the horrors of IE 6 quite well. It&#x27;s still disappointing.)