At a Microsoft event via marketing, Microsoft has apologized for Internet Explorer 6.
Update: Internet Explorer 6 falls below 1% in the US
Internet Explorer 6 has an established reputation of supporting proprietary Microsoft website code and poorly supporting more open standard which has changed in recent versions of Internet Explorer. Migration from Internet Explorer 6 has been an uphill battle for Microsoft has large amounts of enterprises and businesses invested their web applications to be optimized for IE6 and compatibility was an issue for new versions of IE.
Original Tweet: http://twitter.com/AndrewJCohen/statuses/44982527538110464
That is one failure the Microsoft would like to move away from. In light of things, there are always to be learned from epic failures.
Couldn't agree more and I think Microsoft is owed credit for learning from their mistakes, fixing them and innovating from them.