> [...] If it's used for business > your web site must be compatible with Internet Explorer all the way > back to version SIX! Among enterprise networks, IE6 accounts for SIXTY > PERCENT of web browser share (and 78% of IE). And that's as of May, > 2009! (http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10231713-2.html) > Disgraceful, IMHO, but it's reality.
just to add some weight to that, the ginormous bank I work for, and for whom I'd recently started planning the IE7 upgrade for my miniscule sub-empire, cancelled the project indefinitely today, so it will be using IE6 for at least another 18 months. The software we develop for our customers supports IE back to 5.5. You may think it's disgraceful, but the cost of testing all the in-house applications, and getting the sign-off from 3rd-party applications, across such a vast estate is absolutely enormous, and that spend has to compete against spend for other projects which probably have greater, more immediate business benefits, in a deep recession. Why should Microsoft's support timescales decide the business priorities of other companies? Support only lapses because MS wants it to lapse. For a company the size of the one I work for it's quicker, cheaper and easier to tell Microsoft to continue supporting IE6, and as one of their biggest clients in the world, they listen. Bob -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
