[giovannibajo1]

XP extended support will end on April 2014. Antivirus will also cease support (most of them). This means that the day after, there will be a dozen of 0-days (currently being held) exploited in the wild.

I hope those organizations you cite have a plan for April. If they run XP, they must update. If they run Vista+, they can switch to a newer IE and use GPO to force IE8-mode for the intranet (if they wish so).

[drzaiusapelord]

Most of these IE8 users seem to be Win7. IE8 runs on Win7, no problem. I also imagine these shops skipping 9 and jumping to 10 or 11 in the next year or so.

[grumps]

I have a client to deploys IE in IE7 mode...