IE8 usage is under 8% so it's possible for some people/organizations to stop supporting it. In another year, I would expect market share to be under 5%.
There can be many markets where IE usage is much higher than the worldwide average. My previous job had IE as a whole with ~60% share. You can't just decide to ditch a browser because of averages, you need to look at your own data.
Corporate Intranet: within epsilon of 100% IE 8, at the moment. My current job and the last one always had some outdated version of Internet Exploder as the desktop standard (which I ignored for running anything other than in-house junk -- no way I'm taking MSIE out into the wild)
http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser_version-ww-daily-20130615...
IE10 has more usage. Hopefully, Win 8.1 is successful for Microsoft and XP usage drops significantly.