Hi Not wanting to hijack the PNG thread, so I've altered the subject.
I understand the issues involve in huge migrations, it's not that easy.. especially if your systems have a vested interest in some piece of obsolete technology.. but there are two things that strike me as odd here - - IE7 has been around for about 2 years now. It takes about 10 minutes to install IE7 on the desktop (I did one yesterday). 20000 employees shouldn't be that difficult ? - the last time I worked in a big corporate environment, upgrades happened with a zap disk - either by choice or because the OS became unusable. The zap would boot up the PC and download an image to the machine, installing the image. A fresh new windows in about 30 minutes. So, time isn't obviously an issue - I think it's more the "tying of an application to one browser" -- if it's for internal use that's a special case that probably doesn't apply to general public web use. Get enough people hammering on the door and somethings gotta give, I say ;) Cheers James On Monday 04 August 2008 15:54:41 Phillips, Wendy wrote: > I would agree. When you have over 20,000 employees and multiple legacy > systems, upgrading an OS is a really big deal and you will always be behind > the pack. Staff don't have the choice or ability to upgrade. > > > WP > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Lewis, Matthew Sent: Monday, 4 August 2008 2:05 PM > To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org > Subject: Re: [WSG] What is the best solution for IE6 png issue? > > > as to say look at the theory of developing specifics for IE6. There is > > a gaining movement around to start phasing out IE6 support - look at > > 37signals, I think they begin IE6 phase out this week or next. They've > > done their maths and taken a gamble. Hopefully it'll spark something. > > [snip...] > > In the end, do you want to spend hours developing hacks for IE6 or > > just nicely push people into an upgrade path? > > OT and not much to do with IE6 .png solutions but instead, the ongoing > support of IE6 aspect of this thread. > > I was advised by a lesser Microsoft management bot that many corporate > organisations have a 'latest minus one' policy, which means only running up > to the previous version of any current browser. This will hopefully mean > that when IE8 is fully released many corporate techs will then upgrade to > IE7, ideally resulting in a bulk upgrade of the costly IE6. > > I hope this has some truth. > ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
