I work for a major financial firm. We are currently testing IE8 and I am on the team that is actively testing. It is interesting how difficult it really is to just upgrade. Many of the internal applications we run do not work in the new IE, and we end up having to run them in IE8's "compatibility mode". And some of the out of the box applications we use for content management also do not work in IE8.
The nature of the problems is fairly vast, so there isn't a clear repeating pattern that can be isolated and adjusted. In addition, since the applications throughout the firm are owned by different teams, it is a huge undertaking to ensure that all of them can be fixed. And if that is the goal, then the effort would need to be coordinated so that the individual teams could upgrade as their workload permits, and thus inform the users of the schedule for the upgrade. Jennifer ================================================= -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jim Drew Sent: Monday, November 02, 2009 12:24 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [IxDA Discuss] UX trends for big corporations Precisely. How much of the inability to shift off IE6 is caused by our own refusal to tell clients "No. The world has moved on. I'm not going to let you be saddled with what is now 5 year old tech for the *next* five years." I know, it really takes balls to risk not getting a contract because of this, but if we wait for the clients themselves to ask to move… we finally actually dropped support for Win2K less than a month ago. We did get rid of IE5.5 a few years ago by dint of a vendor's script code erroring like crazy on it. Of course, Jennifer was also referencing our internal organizations. I think ours only officially supports IE6, Office 2003, Eudora 4, and so on. The tech teams all have to self-admin to a large degree. -- Jim Via my iPhone On Oct 30, 2009, at 9:08 AM, jennifer <[email protected]> wrote: > Regarding IE6... One the core issues for us is that internally our > company only recognizes and thus supports IE6. They don't consider > it important enough to invest in supporting newer technology. > Ironic, seeing as though we are an internet security company. So, > though we all *know* IE6 stinks, until we can shift internally, we > will never drop support. :( ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help This email is confidential and subject to important disclaimers and conditions including on offers for the purchase or sale of securities, accuracy and completeness of information, viruses, confidentiality, legal privilege, and legal entity disclaimers, available at http://www.jpmorgan.com/pages/disclosures/email. ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
