If you throw out China, IE6 looks like it's mostly gone.

http://www.modern.ie/ie6countdown#map

I'm sure there a few corporate holdouts (and South Korea), but I'm sure many people here can finally say goodbye. The link at the bottom discussed the current browser numbers.

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2014/01/02/ie11-triples-market...

IE7 is pretty much gone too. Now it's IE8-IE11+ for the next 3-5 years.

Is there an IE 8 countdown?

Closest I could find. http://theie8countdown.com/

IE6 is pretty much dead. It's IE8 that won't die.

IE8 is hanging around because MS didn't make anything newer for XP. Which is still hanging around.

Do anyone know the percentages of the split between XP/Vista/7 in the IE8 population?

Here's what I have from about 6 months of Google Analytics. This is a line-of-business web application. GA is only on the login page.

Visits 5,645

% of Total: 4.25% (132,872)

XP: 62.37%

7: 35.57%

Vista: 1.52%

Server 2003: 0.53%

That Windows 7 number scares me a bit.

Very true, 8 has become the new 6.

In fact, I consider the difference between IE 8 and 9 bigger than the difference between IE 6 and 8.

As far as I know, IE9 is the first version of IE that does away with XP support so MS redid a lot of the rendering code to use Direct2D + DirectWrite which opened up hardware accelerated rendering.