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Re:A new Microsoft browser? by sharkweek on Friday January 02, 2015 @01:04AM (#8825724)
Yes but... I used to work for a large financial institution that wouldn't let any of us do anything to our computers so we were all stuck with outdated IE that didn't update itself automatically
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Re:A new Microsoft browser? by kylegordon on Friday January 02, 2015 @02:14AM (#8825889)
That's a policy problem rather than a technical or provider problem. I bet if your employer used Chrome they'd just lock down the version of that as well, courtesy of https://support.google.com/installer/answer/146164?hl=en
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Re:A new Microsoft browser? by DougWebb on Friday January 02, 2015 @09:07AM (#8826750)
As a web developer, the reason for the problem is irrelevant. If your users are using an older browser, it doesn't matter why; you still have to support it. You and they probably have little influence over changing the policy.
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Re:A new Microsoft browser? by detaro on Friday January 02, 2015 @10:15AM (#8826981)
And if they used Firefox they wouldn't have disabled the update functionality?
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