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Campaigns like this always seem to miss the biggest problem: some of the most common users of IE6 and even IE5 are browsing through corporate or educational net
by Jem 18y ago
Campaigns like this always seem to miss the biggest problem: some of the most common users of IE6 and even IE5 are browsing through corporate or educational networks where upgrading would be a nightmare or nigh-on impossible for the techies.
I don't use IE6, I don't like IE6, I even run an IE "hatelisting" - but the reality is that IE6 is not going anywhere any time soon.
- greyman 18y agoYes. And then there are also less experienced people who never upgraded any program, don't know how to do it, or even don't understand the concept of "upgrading".
- jwilliams 18y agoThat's why cross-grading to Firefox or similar can be a good idea. They can always fall back to IE6 if they encounter a problem. The other issue is that many corporates/educational simply don't support or let you install another browser.
- bmj 18y agoThe other issue is that many corporates/educational simply don't support or let you install another browser. This is the single biggest issue, methinks. Even at my company (> 100 people), the majority of non-technical employees do not have the ability to install software on their machines. Our IT department allows technical users to do whatever we need to do, with the caveat that we have to clean up our own messes. That said, the base Windoze installation here includes IE7.
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