Corporate policy? (Score 2, Interesting)

I wonder how much of that 47.6% figure is due to corporate IT departments refusing or unable to roll out newer versions of IE. I work on a fairly popular european website, with close to half of its IE users (around 25% total) still using IE 6. Site usage spikes around noon with a sharp dropoff on the weekend, suggesting that people browse it from work. So I did a quick internal survey in my (tech) company and found that outside of IT and Software Development, almost everyone was still using Windows 2000, which of course doesnt't get IE 7+. It's a shame, really. As a web developer, I hate IE 6 with a burning passion but it's not going away until MS activates the secret killswitch in W2K in a desperate attempt to get people to switch to Vista...