the new IE7 (still in beta?) is gaining momentum. Most likely it'll replace a huge chunk of the current IE6 and some remaining IE<6 users.
It probably differs from previous IEs in critical ways (the CSS interpretation hopefully is better implemented), and thus might work differently with AEC.
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