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[muxxa]

You are assuming that most people will abandon XP when it is officially abandoned, I'm not sure that lack of official support will convince users to embark on a disruptive upgrade to Windows 8.

There are signs that the rate of decline is slowing: http://gs.statcounter.com/#os-ww-quarterly-200803-201303 I think our best bet is that residual users switch to a better browser on XP.

XP is currently on 20%, but IE8 is at 8.5%: http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser_version_partially_combine...

[andybak → muxxa]

Most evidence seems to point to large companies being the holdout - users have already largely abandoned IE on XP.

Check the weekend/weekday variation in IE8 usage. It plummets at weekends to a negligible amount.

[philipwalton → muxxa]

It depends on your company and your audience.

I know my company would never support a browser that wasn't even supported by its maker, and I'm sure a lot of companies wouldn't either.

If you have "customers" you'll probably drop IE8 support quickly in 2014. If you just have "visitors", and if those visitors are international, it might take longer.