On Thu, 14 Jun 2012 12:18:47 -0700, Risker <risker...@gmail.com> wrote:
I agree with Chris and Derric here; at least in the "western world", a
large percentage of IE7 users have not upgraded for "Enterprise" reasons.
Many of these enterprises use proprietary software that is written for
IE7,
and upgrading to the IE9 versions can be cost-prohibitive. Often by
waiting
another couple of years, the cost of the upgrade will drop to the level
that is acceptable to the organization (or alternately they can make a
better business case because support drops for the older versions or
other
critical changes are being held back).
My own employer is in this situation, and until they figured out how to
add
Firefox accessibility to the VPN, I had to keep IE7 on one of my home
computers for those occasions when I work off-site.
Risker
I do have to mention something on this whole topic. All these arguments
seem to focus on saying that that IE6/7 should be supported because
enterprises are dependent on out of date software and can't update.
This line of thought completely ignores the fact that upgrading isn't even
the only option... the possibilities of simply installing a second browser
for web browsing and only opening IE for internal systems (pretend the
page sitting in IE is an app and use shortcuts) or installing chrome frame.
Given that fact arguments that enterprises "can't and should be enabled"
rather than "just wont and should be ignored" feels rather flimsy.
--
~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://daniel.friesen.name]
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