Spot on. A variation of this happens about browsers as well. How hard is it to run some version of Chrome or Firefox that is within the last 5 major releases?

Spot on. A variation of this happens about browsers as well. How hard is it to run some version of Chrome or Firefox that is within the last 5 major releases? I don't care how big your organisation is, it's not that hard. Yet they want to off-load the costs to the rest of the world to keep sites compatible with their IE8.