Second is certain types of Enterprise shops. Before I was hired at WMF, I worked for a company that processes complex financial records for pharmacies participating in a US federal program that reimburses pharmacies for the cost of drugs prescribed for indigent patients. Well
over 50% of
our users were on IE6/7. This was for two reasons: one is that these pharmacies are in the business of selling drugs, and IT is only a tiny part of their operation. Second is that with millions and millions of
dollars
passing through a system regulated by HIPAA and other laws, the risk of upgrading is seen as higher than the risk of using old tech.
I can second this. I used to work for a Credit Union and we made extensive use of IE7. It wasn't that we in the IT department liked IE7, it was just that the cost of replacing the interface our tellers and MSR worked with was too high to justify the change. Someone ages ago had decided that the best way to build the GUI version of the teller interface was to use ActiveX in Internet Explorer.
Thank you, Derric Atzrott Computer Specialist Alizee Pathology