Microsoft seems to be stressing the importance of the Internet Explorer version in their advertisements. 7, 8, 9 and now 10. My workplace still uses 6 and only recently and lethargically we may use 8. I don't use IE for personal use at all, unless for work and checking if my CSS/ExtJS/jQuery screens are IE compatible.
What I fail to understand about this undue stress about these version numbers is, the supposed implication that the greater the number, the better is the browser. I would have rather appreciated fewer versions and earlier adoption of industry web standards, than this mad rush of incrementing the version numbers.
As per Wikipedia, this is the version history of IE.
Internet Explorer 6 was released on August 27, 2001
Internet Explorer 7 was released on October 18, 2006
Internet Explorer 8 was released on March 19, 2009
Internet Explorer 9 was released on March 14, 2011
Microsoft announced Internet Explorer 10 at MIX 11 in Las Vegas.
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