Barney Carroll wrote:
The misleading implication with this news from MS is that users who
have been inexplicably stuck on IE6 will all be moved forward by
this. The sad fact is a lot of IE6 is intentional lock in. Here in
the UK almost all government employees have it as their only browser
— and that's a matter of government policy (it would cost them too
much to upgrade all their custom internal systems to work with new
software). Many large corporates (equally significant employers — and
a lot of people do all of their browsing on work machines) have
similar setups.
My current and previous employers are such.
Also local libraries - I think they're still on IE6, although they might
have moved to IE7. Their systems won't be updating anytime soon. And
their internet access systems are very popular - always fully in use.
My point being that while this new policy will see users of IE7, 8
and 9 that would otherwise have stuck with their browser upgrade, the
IE6 demographic is mostly stuck for other reasons.
And other people simply don't like UI changes such as the move from IE6
to IE7 and see them as unnecessary headaches made for arbitrary reasons
by designers who don't respect users.
--
David
gn...@hawaii.rr.com
authenticity, honesty, community
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