Yeah, give up benefits, have the house foreclosed on... but use Firefox! LOL.
- Dave Friedel
If I recall I think IE6 is without tabs? Imagine the horror, seriously.
- Mark
In some cases, internal applications were written to work with crappy IE5 or 6, and don't work right with anything newer. Some companies hold back upgrades due to the cost of modernizing the applications. My personal favorite is Firefox, but it doesn't work with Active Directory security for internal apps on a Microsoft network.
- Dave Friedel
Yeah, that's the excuse we were always fed in web scripting classes - that they haven't moved due to internal websites and whatnot - but ffs, seriously IE 7 came out 3 years ago!
- Amy
Yep. That's life in large companies. Unfortunately they have the money to employ lots of people... and to put off updating their internal apps. See they don't care that you can't surf some site on the net. Unfortunately it encourages some office workers not to bother upgrading at home either and just be indifferent to browser version. Another argument for Cloud computing.
- Dave Friedel
It also implies that they haven't updated their pcs in FOREVER. These people work in Hell.
- Amy
I've been in the position of trying to justify a six figure upgrade to a set of applications because they only worked on very old versions of IE. Without showing how it makes the company money, saying "people can't see some sites on the Internet" isn't enough to get approval for that much money to be spent on salaries vs other development. This is why I watch Revision3, to know there is a better world outside of multimillion dollar corporate hell.
- Dave Friedel
Excellento - loved the Miles Davis' covers too - our university seems to be locked into IE6 - it's like going back to the dark ages . . .
- Chris Loft
I know someone who still uses IE6. He upgraded to IE7 and now wants to go back to IE6. Poor deluded guy.
- George Brickner
I gotta be honest, I'm a little hurt. I still use IE6...because I have to because my work won't upgrade because they've put to much money into systems that work with IE6 and I'm stuck with this piece of junk! It makes me cry. :(
- ChiliMac
The madness won't stop until MS stops supporting 6. I hope that happens sooner rather than later.
- ChiliMac