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by Chris_Newton 5046 days ago
Maybe not everybody, but it’s a reasonable default. IE8 has been out for more than three years, and works on Windows versions as far back as XP, which in turn has been out for more than a decade and is nearing the end of support from Microsoft.

There is accommodating customers, usually large organisations, who for whatever reason have chosen stability in their system software. And then there is not taking advantage of new technologies that almost everyone in most markets can use, and that almost everyone else could upgrade to if they needed to, just to support a tiny and shrinking minority.