IE6 is still the standard browser in my place of employment. vomit
Thus, the outward-facing website has:
73% IE
21% Chrome
5% Firefox
1% the rest
while the intranet is 100% IE obviously (and it's VBScript-based).
I've pitched the last 3 IT bosses, but they don't want to hear and don't care about the Web (not even as a sales channel). I wish I could disrupt the industry, but it's basically a monopoly (you need government leverage and a lot of money to get in). I'll leave my job as soon as I can (I don't want to move sideways into a similar job, as the local laws harshly penalize switching jobs - you lose all unemployment benefits, pension, holidays, etc.)
When you switch jobs voluntarily, the unemployment benefits and holidays "counters" reset, so if you get fired within the first 3 months you get nothing, during the 1st year afterwards you get 1 month unemployment, etc.. This does not happen if you get fired (I'm currently almost unfireable since the company has to pay me the maximum amount of pay by law if I get fired without a serious offense, 12 months of my salary in addition to accrued wages).
This of course makes switching jobs once you have job security very hard.
The "why upgrade when I'll have to just upgrade again later" logic is clearly not a healthy long term strategy for any business (even outside of IT). Skipping a generation to saves costs may work but how many do you skip before your risk and cost to catch up becomes too much?
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120507/12295718818/south-...
We don't expect to be able to run real-mode DOS programs "on the metal" any more; instead, they're virtualized. Why is running IE6 on the metal any less ridiculous?
Still sucks.
In my office, most users can only access 2 or 3 webpages anyway. When I did development for a financial company, I had a separate computer for internet access, on a separate network (shared by several devs).
Saw that in a former job, and when inquired about updating, "it would cost too much" was the typical response.