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by usaphp 3336 days ago
With automatic windows update there aren't really that many users left who are using IE version lower than 11. Browser stats metrics show that only 0.1% of all users are on IE < version 11.
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What really matters are the stats for one's own users but who's stats say <IE11 is less than 0.1%? NetMarketShare reports of global desktop browsers for April [0] says:

IE11 13.62% IE8 2.25% IE9 1.32% IE10 1.06%

Wikimedia global all-device browsing for April says:

IE11 4.8% IE7 3.0% IE9 0.43% IE6 0.38% IE8 0.25% IE10 0.23% IE4 0.22% (! I don't know what this is about, maybe an old mobile version?)

[0] https://www.netmarketshare.com/browser-market-share.aspx?qpr...

[1] https://analytics.wikimedia.org/dashboards/browsers/#all-sit...

Yes exactly, I know I'm late to the discussion but I hate when people state you font have to support a browser because it only has x% market share.

It's all about your own users. I'm doing UX and front-end for a company that deals with a lot of IE8 users... -_-

The ongoing theory is that they are on hacked XP copies since that traffic is coming out of China.

I wish they could somehow learn about Firefox, which is still supported on Windows XP. Then it would basically be just the people with old phones and 6-7+ year-old Macs that would require fallbacks.
That's a very skewed audience though, web developers aren't going to be using a super-outdated browser and Microsoft's browsers have been an unpopular choice of that audience for a very long time.
I must have some bad luck then, because we're still seeing lots of corporate customers whose users are still stuck on IE10.