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Can you point to at least one "established set of enterprise "web" applications" that supports this claim?

I think the other two responses to this comment are spot-on. Lots of corporate intranets and internal applications are IE-only by default. It's certainly not justifiable from a cost standpoint to rewrite those.

Aside from corporate users, individual consumers who aren't necessarily computer-savvy (like my parents) don't have the knowledge (or desire) to download additional software and install extensions, plug-ins, etc. They go with the default browser of their O/S.

established internal projects, in my experience, tend to target the browsers used by the employees of the company. a lot of shops are still windows-only shops, and so there is no cost-savings gained from worrying about support for other browsers.

Every enterprise has their own. It's called their "intranet". Many written for ie only (they may not have even realized it at the time).

No one wants to rewrite their intranet just to support a marginally better browser.

As far as I can tell - IBM have finally finished porting all of their intranet apps to support firefox.

So there 350,000 users or so..

Sure, those written by Microsoft. You can use Exchange's web interface, or Sharepoint, in browsers other than IE, but the experience is significantly degraded.

https://www.pwccomperio.com

(go there in any browser except IE). This is pretty much the case for all PwC webapps. PwC = >25,000 U.S. employees.

Booz Allen Hamilton > help.bah.com it's an internal site who's basic navigation only works on IE. They even put out a memo to avoid upgrading to the newest IE because of compatibility issues.

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