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Well done. But many IE7 and IE8 users aren't by choice. They are employees at large companies with no ability to upgrade their corporate computers.
by protocow 13y ago
Well done. But many IE7 and IE8 users aren't by choice. They are employees at large companies with no ability to upgrade their corporate computers.
- SDGT 13y agoOne might ask why they're looking for nursing jobs at work then.
- skywhopper 13y agoProbably because they're at a job so crappy that their employer forces them to use IE7.
- DannyBee 13y ago"Screw you nerds, i'm going to change bedpans for the elderly"
- thejosh 13y agoPeople even use their current work emails for job applications.
- beedogs 13y agoSomeone should probably tell them not to do that.
- taspeotis 13y agoOne might ask how those job offers end up on the site. Other unemployed nurses, or hospitals?
- vinceguidry 13y agoMaybe they don't have computers at home.
- trothamel 13y agoFrom what I understand, there's a reasonably large market for temporary nurses, for times when a hospital is understaffed. I suspect it's acceptable to look for a new gig before your current one ends. Edit: It also looks like hospitals, not nurses, are the actual customers.
- veesahni 13y agoDo these corporations not have security issues with these old browsers?
- vinceguidry 13y agoYou're assuming corporations take security seriously.
- singold 13y agoYes they have. I work on one of those (I'm the webmaster), they didn't wanted to get me firefox or chrome, because of 'security issues'...
- goldenkey 13y agoThe newer browsers actually come with a lot of feature-induced security problems too. Microsoft continues to release security updates for IE7 so it might be better to use than a newer version of IE that could have HTML5 exploits.
- justinph 13y agoThat support ends on April 8 of this year: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/enterprise/endofsupport.aspx http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/enterprise/endofsuppo...
- iNate2000 13y agoTrue enough - but it sounds like the site making the offer is a job-board.
- taspeotis 13y agoAnd hospitals post job offers for nurses from their fleet of home PCs, right?
- malandrew 13y agoI'm surprised no one has yet created a database where people can anonymously submit ranges of IPs where a lot of users are on IE7 and other older browsers. This would paint a big ol' bullseye on those organizations since it highlights them as easy targets for exploits that target older browsers.
- hrktb 13y agoYou can take it from the other end. These employees are locked on IE7/8 because there's not enough external forces to make it a business issue. When they won't be able to use critical resources because of their browser or OS, the upgrade will just happen, how painful and costly it will be (as long as it's less costly than not accessing the said resources)
- pekk 13y agoIf this were python, people would be arguing that IE8 does nothing new and maybe we should fork IE7 and continue using that forever
- hrktb 13y agoActually I agree with this line of thinking. I we could in fact fork IE7, replace it at the system level and people were enthusiastic enough to patch bugs and security holes forever, why not.