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I think that XP will be supported for a very long time. A lot of people, including myself, have jumped onto the Apple bandwagon and only use XP for those few pr

by ROFISH 18y ago

I think that XP will be supported for a very long time. A lot of people, including myself, have jumped onto the Apple bandwagon and only use XP for those few programs, including IE6 and various arrays of games, via Boot Camp or some sort of virtualization. Unless Microsoft will actually let me dumb down Windows 7 for the bare minimum for even lower levels of boot time, memory usage, etc, I probably will stick with XP for my dual boot. But the problem at hand isn't people using IE6 at home, there's a lot of companies that will not allow upgrades to even IE7. Somebody, either Mozilla, Google, whatever, needs to implement the features enterprise values most, and then advertise the hell out of it. There's a business idea for somebody willing to take it: Enterprise Browsers. They pay you for support, updates, and insurance that their legacy apps still work. If, for any reason at all, many PHBs see free as 'cheap, inefficient, and worthless'.

arebop 18y ago
Those Enterprise intranet apps are very often dependent on IE6 bugs. Yes, some admins are also concerned about ease of SMS or WUS deployment, or central control over preferences such as proxy settings and the home page, but bug-compatibility with MSIE6 is probably more important and certainly (much) harder to implement. I think the cheapest way to run an IE6 application will be to keep using IE6, for as long as Microsoft is willing to collect the license revenue on WinXP or whatever.
- thwarted 18y ago
  I can't believe there are still people (not necessarily you, arebop) who think pushing _proxy settings_ to clients is somehow good from a security standpoint. If you really want to control or log what people are doing through your network, you have to FORCE them to go through a proxy, and the only way to do that is with a firewall and with a transparent proxy, not by putting configuration on a piece of hardware that someone else, the user, has physical access to and uses day in and day out.

by ROFISH 18y ago

arebop 18y ago

Those Enterprise intranet apps are very often dependent on IE6 bugs. Yes, some admins are also concerned about ease of SMS or WUS deployment, or central control over preferences such as proxy settings and the home page, but bug-compatibility with MSIE6 is probably more important and certainly (much) harder to implement. I think the cheapest way to run an IE6 application will be to keep using IE6, for as long as Microsoft is willing to collect the license revenue on WinXP or whatever.

thwarted 18y ago
I can't believe there are still people (not necessarily you, arebop) who think pushing _proxy settings_ to clients is somehow good from a security standpoint. If you really want to control or log what people are doing through your network, you have to FORCE them to go through a proxy, and the only way to do that is with a firewall and with a transparent proxy, not by putting configuration on a piece of hardware that someone else, the user, has physical access to and uses day in and day out.