2) Draconian IT policies preventing workers from using non-approved software
3) Idiotic decision making from last decade to use ActiveX/some other IE6 only feature for some critical applications.
IE6 still has extended support with XP, but in a few years things will be very bleak for some of these companies.
But it's not all bad, some enterprises have a modicum of reason, solve the problem and at least try to avoid getting in the same mess again. At least that's the trend I perceive.
Bless google for that...
In my job even the developer computers are really closed down, its really anoying
(Thanks vim for the not-administrative rights exe also :D)
What he told me is that the system is designed for the normal users, so is as restricted as possible so that they cannot break it.
Since more and more developers have been joining the company this is becoming a really anoying issue, but nobody of the people who have enough power and could force a change cares about this stuff.
Personally, with my own custom system I would be very much productive, altough vim already boosted my productivity even being on windows (xp) ...
The results actually show that visitors to sites run by site counters customers show that distribution not that the internet as a whole see's that distribution too don't they?
On a site that I run for developers I see less than 1% IE, on a site that a customer runs that deals with many big corporates it's mostly IE and IE 6 at that. Unfortunately I don't think we'll be seeing the death of older browsers any time soon but in some contexts it's OK not to support them.
Easy, all you have to do is reproduce the entireity of IE6 in Chrome. Every little undocumended feature, quirk and difference. And it's all a black box cause IE6 is closed source. Good luck with that. :P