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What's bad about supporting software long after it is obsolete is that it encourages people who know very little to think it is perfectly legitimate to continue

What's bad about supporting software long after it is obsolete is that it encourages people who know very little to think it is perfectly legitimate to continue using it long after it is obsolete. It's their lousy software, it IS their responsibility to transition people off of it.

kennedywm 16y ago
It's just not smart to replace a system that only works well in IE 6 because it might mess up your employees' ability to waste their time on some guy's random startup. There are perfectly legitimate reasons why a corporation would continue to use IE6, despite its countless flaws.
- danieldon 16y ago
  In my experience, those systems are in dire need of replacement, anyway.
- code_duck 16y ago
  Security is the killer flaw, though. They're going to have to change once MS stops patching it - and who knows what 0 day (or -300 day) flaws lurk in IE6.
  - kennedywm 16y ago
    I hope you never have to understand the perverse inner workings of the corporate IT manager's mind. :'(
    - Shorel 16y ago
      So the 'perfectly legitimate reasons' are all because of 'perverse inner workings' of some manager's mind?
tsotha 16y ago
I think it is perfectly okay for people to use obsolete software that does the job. You can always drop support for browser versions you don't want to support, but I think it's bad business and also a bit rude to try to dictate what software potential customers will use. IE6 is still perfectly serviceable for the vast majority of the tasks web browsers are put to.