Re:Google 'discourages' users of old browsers
by toxican on Tuesday September 02, 2014 @09:23AM
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I've never understood the "well we have to keep IE6 because of this one obscure program" as the excuse to why IT departments force their users to use IE6. Keep IE6 for that one obscure, poorly-made program. Give then a copy of Firefox or Chrome to use for everything else. I realize for a lot of users that's more choice than they can handle, but those that know better must be tortured by that awful lack of choice.
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Re:Google 'discourages' users of old browsers
by acdha on Tuesday September 02, 2014 @10:39AM
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It's actually worse than that: Microsoft gives you free integrated desktop virtualization (MED-V) and, in IE 11 they added an Enterprise Mode which works very well with antique sites. Both can be seamlessly integrated using group policy so a user clicks on the blue e, uses the web as normal and when they hit http://creaky-internal-app.example.com the experience seamlessly jumps back a decade.
This isn't being conservative about upgrades. This about an IT department refusing to learn to do anything they weren't doing in 2000.
Re:Google 'discourages' users of old browsers
by pbhjpbhj on Tuesday September 02, 2014 @09:43AM
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I've never used one but I understand there are plugins that load a particular URL in an IEframe. So there's no need for the user to know that they need to use IE for one thing and FF/Chrome for another.