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You have definitely never worked in a heavily enterprisey environment :) Many times there are compatibility reasons behind the decision not to update a piece o

You have definitely never worked in a heavily enterprisey environment :) Many times there are compatibility reasons behind the decision not to update a piece of software. That was the reason why IE6 kept its throne as the most used browser for so long: sysadmins couldn't upgrade because upgrades broke poorly-written websites (mostly intranet pages.) So yeah, if there was a policy not to update Firefox, I'd be rather pissed about it updating on its own to a radically different version. Other than that, most users should get the upgrade.

melling 14y ago
I have worked in that type of environment so let me clear something up for you. It's your own damn fault! The code could have been tested on Mozilla at the same time, for example. I was there when people wrote that crap and people felt that running in IE was good enough. Companies should always have been taking the approach that a web browser isn't simply an app from Microsoft. You either pay a little up front or a lot later. Time to pay up and fix that legacy code that no one wants to touch.
- romnempire 14y ago
  right, so people in the past are able to predict the future of software markets and sysadmins have complete control over where a company's development resources go. okay, got it.
  - melling 14y ago
    You are generalizing quite a bit here. We are specifically talking about web browsers. Plenty of developers stuck with Netscape then Mozilla and wanted to support them. And sysadmins have lots of control at some level. "We can only support browser X, but not browser Y. As a firm we only support IE". Anyway, good luck getting off of XP and those old IE's. The rest of the world is moving on. When IE10 comes out, I'll email the link to my mom, etc and they'll be upgraded in minutes. Corporate America? Well, there are a lot of overpaid people working on it.

melling 14y ago

I have worked in that type of environment so let me clear something up for you. It's your own damn fault! The code could have been tested on Mozilla at the same time, for example. I was there when people wrote that crap and people felt that running in IE was good enough. Companies should always have been taking the approach that a web browser isn't simply an app from Microsoft. You either pay a little up front or a lot later. Time to pay up and fix that legacy code that no one wants to touch.

romnempire 14y ago
right, so people in the past are able to predict the future of software markets and sysadmins have complete control over where a company's development resources go. okay, got it.
- melling 14y ago
  You are generalizing quite a bit here. We are specifically talking about web browsers. Plenty of developers stuck with Netscape then Mozilla and wanted to support them. And sysadmins have lots of control at some level. "We can only support browser X, but not browser Y. As a firm we only support IE". Anyway, good luck getting off of XP and those old IE's. The rest of the world is moving on. When IE10 comes out, I'll email the link to my mom, etc and they'll be upgraded in minutes. Corporate America? Well, there are a lot of overpaid people working on it.