Thumbs up for IE6 and employment! On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 10:34 AM, Henry <rcornf...@raindrop.co.uk> wrote: > > On Jun 4, 5:23 pm, Gilles wrote: > <snip> >> By work experience I found that most users that still use IE6 >> are companies and their employees, mostly because their IT >> department is inadequate or non-existant which result in >> windows update not even being on automatic or used. > > Not allowing automatic OS updaters can be an IT department's > deliberate policy. > >> Also >> many employees wish they could upgrade to IE7 or even Firefox >> but like most companies will have policy and permissions set >> in a way where the employee can not install or upgrade >> anything themselves. > > You are not considering company Intranets, where there may be many > 'web applications' that were written for (and so may only work > properly with) IE 6. If those applications are important to a > company's internal bussiness/opeartions/organisation (and they > probably would not be there if they were not) then there may be very > good practical/financial reasons for that company not wanting its > desktop browsers to suddenly be changed for a potentially incompatible > version. Even the cost of testing all the internal web applications of > a large business with a new browser version could be unwelcome > (especially in an economic downturn), and the cost having them re- > worked/re-written in the event that they do not work would be on top > of that. > > The assertion that business are currently tending to stick with IE 6 > tallies 100% with my experience. > > >
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