This part of the article really threw me off. Someone writing an article on HTTP headers for a major CDN has never had to deal with IE6?
Most emulations don't work.
You need the old stuff (IE), for the old applications to work, and as long as they can force it to, they won't update said old application.
I've even had to touch systems which required IE 4 in the last few years, from before Trident became the rendering engine.