First note from my company's IT group yesterday:



Followed this morning by:

who the fluff still uses IE?

WHAT YEAR IS THIS

ie has ~50% share of browser-market and even ie6 has few percentage share.

yeah that was my question today....

Who the fluff is still using that POS browser?

ancient dinosaurs that probably have half their IE window filled with toolbars, prolly

^^^

Employed people still do.

Yesterday on a clean install in a VM of XP sp2, IE6 crashed upon first opening before appearing.

I'm not sure how ppl can still use IE6 because even MS sites dont work correctly.

http://i.imgur.com/xv3yg5O.jpg

Unfortunately most of that 50% is business users with uneducated old school IT managers, which live in the Microsoft branded prison they built for themselves along with the rest of their company. These are the same guys that stuck with Windows 2000 and continued to put money into infrastructure based on it long after XP came out, let XP end of life come before being upgraded to Windows 7(or worse yet upgraded to windows8 and didn't even bother with 8.1), and some of the old timers probably did the same thing between NT4 and Win2k.

They lock down their users to the point of insanity all the while slacking on updates in the name of ensuring they don't cause problems first. Update testing consists of install update on machine, play solitary and minesweeper for a week. They force use of IE because it is "secure" while being the most insecure browser. They force use of antique operating systems and deprecated software packages in the name of stability and cost considerations while paying double the staff to go around switch out computers and fix them, hiring outside software developers to reverse engineer and fix broken software, and paying old school thinking consultants to tell them the same fluff their IT managers already think because it's what they want to hear.

Many of these companies/entities have your credit card information or worse yet have access to government information about you. Your bank probably is in this list too, but they already have your money.

This is an adult scary story you can tell around the campfire.

I work with the military.

Guess which browser is the only one authorized on our machines.

MSIE.

netscape?

"Would you like to play a nice game of Global Thermonuclear War?"

LMFAO....

that is so true. Way to capture it.

done already, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WarGames :P

Next time, Getafix, cite your quotes!

are the nukes connected to IE ?

and just when you thought it was forgotten... http://tech.slashdot.org/...ergency-ie-zero-day-patch

its hypotized that xp got fix due ie-core is ~same in all versions and removing xp from patch would been difficult.

shush. I'm still trying to get my DOS 6.3 games to work on my Mini.