Comments on: IE 8 Sadly – Dead in the Water http://manwithnoblog.com/2009/04/05/ie-8-sadly-dead-in-the-water/ Gary Barber rants on user experience, and the controlled chaos of the Web Industry Wed, 25 Jan 2012 02:19:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Gary Barber http://manwithnoblog.com/2009/04/05/ie-8-sadly-dead-in-the-water/comment-page-1/#comment-9549 Gary Barber Mon, 06 Apr 2009 05:02:05 +0000 http://manwithnoblog.com/?p=369#comment-9549 @Ben, So true on the OS version current - 1 attitude. The reason people don't like to move to a new browser is the old support attitude: <blockquote> oh it's not a 'blah product' oh you are using a third party application, oh then we can't support you. </blockquote> Hence the need for MS-Office, IE and Win OS, the standard SOE must be all MS or they just can't support it. I really think the quality of support personal in the last 20 years has dropped. No longer do people mix and match software. It's all very conservative now. It's like the accountants have taken over IT. @Ben, So true on the OS version current – 1 attitude.

The reason people don’t like to move to a new browser is the old support attitude:

oh it’s not a ‘blah product’ oh you are using a third party application, oh then we can’t support you.

Hence the need for MS-Office, IE and Win OS, the standard SOE must be all MS or they just can’t support it. I really think the quality of support personal in the last 20 years has dropped. No longer do people mix and match software. It’s all very conservative now. It’s like the accountants have taken over IT.

]]> By: Ben Buchanan http://manwithnoblog.com/2009/04/05/ie-8-sadly-dead-in-the-water/comment-page-1/#comment-9548 Ben Buchanan Mon, 06 Apr 2009 04:55:22 +0000 http://manwithnoblog.com/?p=369#comment-9548 The impression I get is most corporates on 2k would be more likely to upgrade to XP than skip to 7. A common attitude is "one off current is best" with the added restriction that nobody seems to want to use Vista. Really I think a better solution for corporates on 2k is to ignore IE and roll out a better browser that's NOT tied to the OS. There seems to be an insane amount of resistance to running another browser, despite the evidence that anything is better than IE6 these days (particularly from the security p.o.v.). The impression I get is most corporates on 2k would be more likely to upgrade to XP than skip to 7. A common attitude is “one off current is best” with the added restriction that nobody seems to want to use Vista. Really I think a better solution for corporates on 2k is to ignore IE and roll out a better browser that’s NOT tied to the OS. There seems to be an insane amount of resistance to running another browser, despite the evidence that anything is better than IE6 these days (particularly from the security p.o.v.).

]]> By: S. http://manwithnoblog.com/2009/04/05/ie-8-sadly-dead-in-the-water/comment-page-1/#comment-9521 S. Sun, 05 Apr 2009 05:27:48 +0000 http://manwithnoblog.com/?p=369#comment-9521 No, not any time yet. My employer - a thousand seat site locally has an internal employee portal that is critical to day to day activities. It is IE6 only - and i mean, specifically IE6, no other browser works (IE7/IE8/Firefox/Opera/Chrome/Safari) - you can't even log in. So yes, we'll be moving to IE8 when our internal system gets it's $500,000 upgrade. No, not any time yet.

My employer – a thousand seat site locally has an internal employee portal that is critical to day to day activities.

It is IE6 only – and i mean, specifically IE6, no other browser works (IE7/IE8/Firefox/Opera/Chrome/Safari) – you can’t even log in.

So yes, we’ll be moving to IE8 when our internal system gets it’s $500,000 upgrade.

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