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I can't speak for anyone else, but as a Web developer, I hate Microsoft because of their current and recent handling of Internet Explorer - specifically that it
by rtfeldman 13y ago
I can't speak for anyone else, but as a Web developer, I hate Microsoft because of their current and recent handling of Internet Explorer - specifically that it doesn't auto-update.
I love my job, but in my job, Internet Explorer 8-9 is pain. It's why we can't have nice things. I checked out a Windows Phone in a store once, and thought it was pretty sweet until I saw the IE logo and physically recoiled. There was no way I was going to own something where I'd have to hit that logo every day to browse the Internet.
That's not ancient history, that's present-day reality.
- adamnemecek 13y ago> specifically that it doesn't auto-update you might want to do a double check on that
- shanselman 13y agoYa, IE8 sucks but my Windows 7 machine auto-updated from IE9 to IE10 and just updated to IE11 just last week.
- jdaley 13y agoInternet Explorer doesn't automatically update because every company disables the automatic updates. Developing for Internet Explorer 8 is my present-day reality too, but if IT departments were instead mandating Firefox 3.0 or Chrome 1.0 I'm not sure how much better it would be.
- gaius 13y agoWe have a saying in Yorkshire, where there's muck there's brass.