You likely have been upgrading and maintaining your car. Users with IE7 who expect the world to freeze with their hardware are like car owners who do not change their oil yet would be amiss when their car stops functioning after 10 years.
Strained car analogies are the 1999 Slashdot PT Cruiser of internet arguments.
I nearly spit water out of my nose. And probably the corner of my eyes.
Could be worse, as I've just found out; it could be hot coffee.
I don't think anyone running IE 7 honestly believes that. But the promise of the Web was you got to avoid minimum hardware requirements and things worked everywhere. HTML and CSS were supposed to be backwards-compatible by degrading gracefully. This point has been lost. There's really very little point in having an open standard if the only way to run anything is to update your browser every 6 weeks.