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This is interesting, because according the analytics I have access to, large institutions in my field (which is large in itself) seem to have standardized on IE8. I guess a lot of these shops went from IE6 to IE8, skipping 7 entirely. Its funny how long IE8 is sticking around and I wonder if its going to be the new "IE6" for some time.

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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).

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

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.

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