Ask HN: Why is IE8 usage growing?

Re:Ask HN: Why is IE8 usage growing? by buster on Thursday May 14, 2015 @06:57AM (#9544334)

You may not believe it but there are a lot of enterprises that are still running Windows XP and just now in the process to upgrade to Windows7. IE8 is the default browser in Windows 7.

Just a guess, but for example, i know for a fact that the german telecom is doing this XP->Win7 migration in the coming months...

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Re:Ask HN: Why is IE8 usage growing? by engi_nerd on Thursday May 14, 2015 @08:50AM (#9544785)

Yup, my rather large workplace (in the Fortune 100) switched from XP to Win 7 just about a year ago. We have IE8 but they will also let us use an ESR version of Firefox. Other business units than mine get to use Chrome, too.

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Re:Ask HN: Why is IE8 usage growing? by xmstr on Thursday May 14, 2015 @08:20AM (#9544660)

I work for an org that just upgraded from XP to Win7, however we went straight to ie11 as the default browser during the upgrade. However, optional use Firefox and Chrome is permitted for both XP and Win7.

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Re:Ask HN: Why is IE8 usage growing? by ryanmarsh on Thursday May 14, 2015 @09:13PM (#9548451)

My current client runs XP. My Java devs have to use it. Torture.

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