One can hope.
IE6 is the bane of the web developer's existence. I know. I am one. I hate IE6. Not a big fan of IE in general. Sorta goes along with the whole Microsoft trying to be the bully in the playground and control which marbles we're allowed to play with. IE6, though is an unqualified piece of junk and a huge failure. And yet, current guestimates suggest up to 25% of traffic is still coming from someone using IE6.
An new initiative is out there to put an end to IE6: IE6 No More. As much as I'd like to hope it will make a difference, I'm skeptical. For starters, as Mashable points out, many folk still using IE6 are stuck because of IT restrictions. I occasionally do work for one such company. Have you ever worked for a major corporation with a firmly entrenched IT bureaucracy? I have. It takes an act of God to change anything. Wouldn't surprise me if the aforementioned company has just gotten around to deploying XP SP3.
Then there was Save The Developers initiative that was started late '07 or early '08. Check out the web site and see how far that went.
It's too bad. If it were up to developers, we'd have quit supporting IE6 the minute IE7 came out. It's not though. It's up the the client. Can you think of a single company willing to risk alienating up to 25% of it's audience? I thought not.
Personally, I do my best to ignore IE6 unless a client has a specific need. None of my clients are trying to reach anyone in a developing nation, and basically—based on the types of sites I generally work on—if you're working for a company with a draconian IT department, you probably shouldn't be on my site while you're at work anyway.