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And a lot of the firms that use it also tend to be large and have very deep pockets. You pretty much have to cater to their every need, because they pay well.

• tboyd47 9y ago
  If they can afford to pay me to spend all day writing workarounds for IE9, why couldn't they afford to upgrade their users to a secure browser?
  • shagie 9y ago
    It is much easier and less expensive to pay a developer to keep writing those workarounds than to recertify all of the internal applications to a modern version of IE. Furthermore there is a significant time cost to the testing and deployment of a new browser to all machines. These two times and costs are often several times if not an order of magnitude or more the developer cost.
    • tboyd47 9y ago
      Interesting, thanks. I honestly didn't know companies still used IE9. My employers stopped supporting it on EOL.
      • megaman22 9y ago
        We have customers that still want support for IE8... The inertia in some of these organizations is monumental.
  • zaarn 9y ago
    You're applying logic to a software issue at BigCorp, that assumption is, sadly, wrong. A lot of the time it's some kind of support contract though. Somebody at some point in time had a brain fart and signed a contract for a Website running in IE9 for the next 20 years and now they will have to support that, cost it what it might.