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An sufficiently large org will have a non-trivial amount of users on "outdated" (aka older than 2 years old) versions of software.

Any public service (aka government site) will have a huge amount of people on "outdated" software and hardware.

Also: how the f... did 2 years become "omg it's so old we're no longer supporting it"?

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You're being generous with two years. In my experience, if it's older than 20 minutes, burn the program, salt the disk, it's horribly obsolete, you'll be hacked and your identity stolen. Oh, and by the time you've updated, it's obsolete so update again.

I hate it.

So they stick IE? There are no browser supported over 2 years now in same version. Good luck.

Right now I'm in a team that doesn't expose anything to the web. However, three years ago I had a stint at Spotify and our project was exposed to the web. We would routinely get up to 3 million visitors a month from IE 11. That's more people than some countries.

Any public service (at least in theory) must support browser versions significantly beyond the arbitrary 2-years-old mark.

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