diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 273934ed01..b695b25cea 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -431,10 +431,6 @@ subdirectory with the name of your theme. Each theme can have the
 following files:
 
 display.css: a CSS2 file for "default" styling for all browsers.
-ie6.css: a CSS2 file for override styling for fixing up Internet
-    Explorer 6.
-ie7.css: a CSS2 file for override styling for fixing up Internet
-    Explorer 7.
 logo.png: a logo image for the site.
 default-avatar-profile.png: a 96x96 pixel image to use as the avatar for
     users who don't upload their own.
diff --git a/lib/action.php b/lib/action.php
index 12137df06e..1fcc9d6925 100644
--- a/lib/action.php
+++ b/lib/action.php
@@ -319,19 +319,6 @@ class Action extends HTMLOutputter // lawsuit
             $this->cssLink('js/extlib/jquery-ui/css/smoothness/jquery-ui.css');
 
             if (Event::handle('StartShowUAStyles', array($this))) {
-                $this->comment('[if IE]><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" '.
-                               'href="'.Theme::path('css/ie.css', 'base').'?version='.GNUSOCIAL_VERSION.'" /><![endif]');
-                foreach (array(6,7) as $ver) {
-                    if (file_exists(Theme::file('css/ie'.$ver.'.css', 'base'))) {
-                        // Yes, IE people should be put in jail.
-                        $this->comment('[if lte IE '.$ver.']><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" '.
-                                       'href="'.Theme::path('css/ie'.$ver.'.css', 'base').'?version='.GNUSOCIAL_VERSION.'" /><![endif]');
-                    }
-                }
-                if (file_exists(Theme::file('css/ie.css'))) {
-                    $this->comment('[if IE]><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" '.
-                               'href="'.Theme::path('css/ie.css', null).'?version='.GNUSOCIAL_VERSION.'" /><![endif]');
-                }
                 Event::handle('EndShowUAStyles', array($this));
             }
 
diff --git a/theme/base/css/ie.css b/theme/base/css/ie.css
deleted file mode 100644
index 7f0265129b..0000000000
--- a/theme/base/css/ie.css
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,98 +0,0 @@
-/* IE specific styles */
-
-input.checkbox,
-input.radio {
-top:0;
-}
-
-.form_notice textarea {
-    width: 473px;
-}
-
-.threaded-replies .form_notice textarea {
-    width: 395px;
-}
-
-.form_notice .form_note + label {
-position:absolute;
-text-indent:-9999px;
-height:16px;
-width:16px;
-display:block;
-    left: 390px;
-    top: 27px;
-}
-.form_notice #notice_action-submit {
-    width: 106px;
-    max-width: 106px;
-}
-
-.form_notice .count {
-    right: 52px;
-}
-
-#form_notice-direct.form_notice .count {
-    right: 18px;
-}
-
-#form_notice-direct label {
-    float: left;
-}
-
-#form_notice-direct select {
-    margin-top: 0px;
-    float: left;
-}
-
-.form_notice .error,
-.form_notice .success,
-.form_notice .notice-status {
-    width: 468px; 
-}
-
-.notice-options input.submit {
-font-size:0;
-text-align:right;
-text-indent:0;
-}
-
-.notice div.entry-content .timestamp a {
-margin-right:4px;
-}
-.entity_profile {
-width:64%;
-}
-.notice {
-z-index:1;
-}
-.notice:hover {
-z-index:9999;
-}
-.notice .thumbnail img {
-z-index:9999;
-}
-
-.form_settings fieldset fieldset legend {
-line-height:auto;
-}
-
-#site_nav_global_primary ul {
-    margin-right: 0px;
-}
-
-#site_nav_local_views ul {
-    list-style-type: none;
-    list-style-position: outside;
-}
-
-.notice-options input.submit {
-    color:#FFFFFF;
-}
-
-.form_notice input.notice_data-attach {
-    filter: alpha(opacity=0);
-}
-
-.notice .addressees:before {
-    content: '\003E';
-}
diff --git a/theme/base/css/ie6.css b/theme/base/css/ie6.css
deleted file mode 100644
index c4a87a6631..0000000000
--- a/theme/base/css/ie6.css
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,60 +0,0 @@
-/* LTE IE6 styles */
-
-#content {
-    width: 520px;
-}
-
-#aside_primary {
-    width: 220px;
-}
-
-#content h1 {
-    clear: left;
-}
-
-address .fn {
-    display: none;
-}
-
-#header-search {
-    width: 240px;
-}
-
-#header-search input {
-    height: 20px;
-    font-size: 12px;
-}
-
-.entity_profile .entity_nickname,
-.entity_profile .entity_location,
-.entity_profile .entity_url,
-.entity_profile .entity_note,
-.entity_profile .entity_tags {
-margin-left:0;
-}
-.entity_profile .entity_depiction {
-margin-bottom:123px;
-}
-.entity_actions {
-width:20%;
-}
-
-.notice div.entry-content {
-    margin-left: 30px;
-}
-
-.notice-source-activity div.entry-content {
-    margin-left: 0;
-} 
-
-.threaded-replies {
-    margin-left: 30px;
-}
-
-#content .notice .threaded-replies .notice div.entry-content {
-    margin-left: 18px;
-}
-
-.notice-options a {
-width:16px;
-}
diff --git a/theme/base/css/ie7.css b/theme/base/css/ie7.css
deleted file mode 100644
index a4e8a612b3..0000000000
--- a/theme/base/css/ie7.css
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
-/* LTE IE7 styles */ 
-
-#core {
-    margin-top: 3px;
-}
-
-#header-search input[type="submit"] {
-    padding-left: 20px;
-}
-
-.input_forms {
-    margin-bottom: -20px;
-}
-
-.notice .addressees {
-    background: url(../images/icons/arrow_right.png) no-repeat top left;
-    padding-left: 16px;
-}
-
-#content .notice .threaded-replies .notice-data { 
-    margin-left: 0px;
-}