Re:Microsoft: 'Friends don't let friends use IE6'
by sid0 on Tuesday August 18, 2009 @10:26AM
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Yep. If you've made a promise, you keep it, even if you hate doing so. That's something I'd expect from someone I entered into business with; wouldn't you?
Re:Microsoft: 'Friends don't let friends use IE6'
by robin_reala on Tuesday August 18, 2009 @11:15AM
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Sure. If you’ve agreed a support schedule upfront then by all means you should honour it. I’m not sure though that I’d be bad-mouthing my own products at the same time. Although actually thinking about it, I can’t see why you wouldn’t :)
Still, supporting from Microsoft’s point of view just means providing security fixes; they’re perfectly within their rights to stop making their new sites work with it (as evidenced by the new online Office that doesn’t work with it).
End of the day, you just have to convince clients that the concept of graded support makes the most business sense. IE6 on our sites will definitely work, but might miss out on some design niceties if they’re trivial in new browsers and very difficult in older ones. It doesn’t mean we don’t support it, just that the level of support is different.