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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.