[Yossarian]

If you haven't been using "more recent browsing technology such as Apple's Safari." , then you're not interested in changing things, so why do you need to change now?

Here's a decent reason: IE isn't getting updated to fix security holes. So, if someone comes up with a new hack (for example, some kind of web address spoofing scheme), Safari or Firefox users will probably get a quick fix, whereas IE users won't get notified a problem exists.

The one bad side of this: some idiotic websites are hard-coded to only work with IE. I know, I could turn on the "debug mode" of Safari, and set the "user-agent" variable to read like IE, but it is easier to just fire up IE for those few sites.

[Izzy Dunne]

Here's a decent reason: IE isn't getting updated to fix security holes.

Well, that's true, but my point is that anyone using IE is not concerned about security. So the fact that MS won't "support" it any more is irrelevant.

[BigSkyFreeper]

Safari or Firefox users will probably get a quick fix, whereas IE users won't get notified a problem exists.

That is the case when it becomes "unsupported" software. Only people resistant to change will stick it out with IE, and that number isn't a very large majority.

[CheneyChick]

The one bad side of this: some idiotic websites are hard-coded to only work with IE. I know, I could turn on the "debug mode" of Safari, and set the "user-agent" variable to read like IE, but it is easier to just fire up IE for those few sites.

Thank goodness, those occasions are happening less and less. Sometimes I have luck with Firefox on those sites, but my primary browser is Safari.