According to a recent post on the Windows Team Blog, "the United States has joined the ranks of Austria, Poland, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Norway in dropping below 1% usage of IE6" (emphasis mine). Global usage is at 7.7%, mainly due to its widespread use in China (25%).

In case you haven't heard, Google (and at least 30 other companies) were attacked by hackers in late December (codenamed Operation Aurora).  Although it cannot be publicly verified as 100% accurate, Google announced in a blog post that the "highly sophisticated and targeted attack on [their] corporate infrastructure [had orginiated] from China".  Their primary goal was "accessing the Gmail accounts of Chinese human rights activi