Legacy IE is maintained by the corporate IT Kata I used in another comment on this thread.
"Sure Boss, I'll sort that out for you, I'll get a business case for the migration together over the weekend, can we meet on Monday to go through it and sign off?"
Moving off IE6/7 costs £x k, because there are 1->1000 applications (I know my company has about 30 major ones) that are known to need changes to function on later versions properly (even with compatibility mode) and 100+ that will need some testing.
Now, when I say these applications need work, often the problems are incredibly trivial, but in a corporate these things (a button has moved, a menu item doesn't work but the button does, you need to hit the ok button not hit <enter> etc. GENERATE HELPDESK CALLS!
And the calls don't go away after 2 days as the users get used to it - they are ongoing, there will be escalations, your manager's manager will be teased at the SMT event, worse your manager's managers peers in other corporates will get war stories featuring your manager in A BAD LIGHT (think about the implications of that) all of which is unfair and silly.
But this is what will happen.
Ok - you get the case done, you see your boss. The number is £30k; is it in the budget? No.
The consequence of not doing it? Your manager shows the case to her manager.
The consequence of doing it without the migration: see above.
"Sure Boss, I'll sort that out for you, I'll get a business case for the migration together over the weekend, can we meet on Monday to go through it and sign off?"
Moving off IE6/7 costs £x k, because there are 1->1000 applications (I know my company has about 30 major ones) that are known to need changes to function on later versions properly (even with compatibility mode) and 100+ that will need some testing.
Now, when I say these applications need work, often the problems are incredibly trivial, but in a corporate these things (a button has moved, a menu item doesn't work but the button does, you need to hit the ok button not hit <enter> etc. GENERATE HELPDESK CALLS!
And the calls don't go away after 2 days as the users get used to it - they are ongoing, there will be escalations, your manager's manager will be teased at the SMT event, worse your manager's managers peers in other corporates will get war stories featuring your manager in A BAD LIGHT (think about the implications of that) all of which is unfair and silly.
But this is what will happen.
Ok - you get the case done, you see your boss. The number is £30k; is it in the budget? No.
The consequence of not doing it? Your manager shows the case to her manager.
The consequence of doing it without the migration: see above.
End off.