Microsoft's browser upgrade decree proves disastrous for IE

Microsoft's decision more than a year ago to require most Internet Explorer (IE) users to upgrade to the newest version appears to have had a disastrous impact on the browser's share, recently published data shows.
In August 2014, Microsoft unexpectedly told most IE users that they had to be running IE11 by Jan. 12, 2016, about 15 weeks from now. After that date, Microsoft will support IE9 only on the little-used Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008; IE10 only on Windows Server 2012; and only