[wycats]

IE9 doesn't run on Windows XP. IE10 won't run on Windows Vista. So it's safe to say that even with silent updates (which still won't automatically run on corporate machines with corporate IT policies that control the updates), IE8 and IE9 usage won't rapidly drop into low single digits.

[melling]

IE8 will probably be more persistent than IE9. I think a lot of corporations are still on XP. Mine is, for example. When companies finally make the jump to Win7, I think they'll move pretty quickly to IE10, so as not to be too far behind. After all, we should expect IE11 next year.

[mitchty]

As a note, at my company last year the xp images JUST got IE7. And last week, as the first group of people, our group got upgraded to Win 7+IE8. Major corporations are slooooow at updates.

I'm just happy its happening at all, I know people at banks that have IE6 still.