bzw. so wiederholen sich die Ereignisse
Jahre ist es her, da gab es eine Initiative/Aufruf der Norweger Zeitungsverlage, von IE zu einem anderen Browser zu wechseln.

Nun aus einem Artikel auf acquia.com:

R.I.P. IE 6, 7, and 8

And finally, to end on a bit of a melancholy note, the last big improvement for front-end developers is that at last, in a move applauded by web designers everywhere, Drupal 8 core has officially dropped support for IE 6, 7 and 8, enabling the use of jQuery 2.0 and other code that assumes modern HTML5/CSS3 browser support. (And note that there's also talk of dropping support for Android 2.3 and below for the same reason.)