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Re:Introducing TogetherJS by Mikeb85 on Wednesday October 16, 2013 @11:17PM (#6563490)
Of course it could be costly (in time mostly). But eventually, everything reaches end-of-life. Windows XP, IE6, IE10 will too...

For years, organizations said switching to Linux is more costly than paying the MS tax. Recently, many large organizations rolled out Linux installs on a massive scale (European government institutions).

Anyhow, installing Firefox on some workstations is relatively small compared to say, replacing COBOL, or Windows XP...

Edit - and while I don't manage a large computer install base, I use them at a large organization with thousands of installs (a University), and they somehow managed to install Firefox on every single computer.... (but they still advertise COBOL jobs)

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Re:Introducing TogetherJS by brokenparser on Thursday October 17, 2013 @02:02AM (#6563890)
And for those intranet sites which only work on old IE, you could use the IE tab add-on (see https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ie-tab/ ).
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