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Are there really non-programmers (ie - not those working on iTunes/safari on Windows) at Apple using IE/Windows?

• acdha 14y ago
  Almost certainly: I'd be shocked if they didn't have HR or accounting people dealing with incredibly hairy enterprise accounting, payroll, purchasing, etc. apps. If they're lucky, they support IE > 6. At a previous job, I called Oracle support for one of their enterprise apps (we paid at least 6 figures a year for “support”) asking about IE8 compatibility and was eventually told that they don't test Microsoft's software for them and would wait until it was released to start. This was after IE8 was released and our users had already discovered that Oracle's thicket of JavaScript had an ancient bindows.net library which relied on IE not throwing an exception for a completely erroneous misuse of elem.style; a week or so later, a support manager called me to ask for a copy of the monkey-patch I'd mentioned so they could distribute it to other customers.