Microsoft killed my Pappy

Re:Microsoft killed my Pappy by rtfeldman on Saturday February 22, 2014 @02:55AM (#7281330)

I can't speak for anyone else, but as a Web developer, I hate Microsoft because of their current and recent handling of Internet Explorer - specifically that it doesn't auto-update.

I love my job, but in my job, Internet Explorer 8-9 is pain. It's why we can't have nice things. I checked out a Windows Phone in a store once, and thought it was pretty sweet until I saw the IE logo and physically recoiled. There was no way I was going to own something where I'd have to hit that logo every day to browse the Internet.

That's not ancient history, that's present-day reality.

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Re:Microsoft killed my Pappy by adamnemecek on Saturday February 22, 2014 @02:58AM (#7281340)

> specifically that it doesn't auto-update

you might want to do a double check on that

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Re:Microsoft killed my Pappy by shanselman on Saturday February 22, 2014 @03:02AM (#7281350)

Ya, IE8 sucks but my Windows 7 machine auto-updated from IE9 to IE10 and just updated to IE11 just last week.

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Re:Microsoft killed my Pappy by jdaley on Saturday February 22, 2014 @03:43AM (#7281453)

Internet Explorer doesn't automatically update because every company disables the automatic updates.

Developing for Internet Explorer 8 is my present-day reality too, but if IT departments were instead mandating Firefox 3.0 or Chrome 1.0 I'm not sure how much better it would be.

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Re:Microsoft killed my Pappy by gaius on Saturday February 22, 2014 @03:58AM (#7281483)

We have a saying in Yorkshire, where there's muck there's brass.

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