right, so people in the past are able to predict the future of software markets and sysadmins have complete control over where a company's development resources go. okay, got it.
You are generalizing quite a bit here. We are specifically talking about web browsers. Plenty of developers stuck with Netscape then Mozilla and wanted to support them. And sysadmins have lots of control at some level. "We can only support browser X, but not browser Y. As a firm we only support IE". Anyway, good luck getting off of XP and those old IE's. The rest of the world is moving on. When IE10 comes out, I'll email the link to my mom, etc and they'll be upgraded in minutes. Corporate America? Well, there are a lot of overpaid people working on it.
