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Long live Internet Explorer 6! • mozillaZine Forums
On a more serious note, a lot of corporations wrote applications tied to IE6, and simply can't upgrade IE because it will break their internal business.
IE7 and IE8 were designed to replace IE6, and can't be installed alongside the older version in a stable way.
Competitors should view this as an opportunity.
We all want to move forward towards standards-based browsing, and don't want to be trapped by our legacy apps.
But we don't have to upgrade IE to do that.
Instead, install a competing browser (Chrome, Safari, Opera, Firefox) alongside IE6.
The competitors don't mind IE sitting there continuing to run the legacy apps.
They'll happily act as your web browser for outside content, while IE6 continues to keep your internal business operating.
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Those businesses are living on flood planes..
Lol.
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Windows 7 will ship with a copy of XP and IE6 to run in a VM, so there's a limited window of opportunity to push competition before those companies have no further reason to avoid upgrading to IE8.
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Spacepoint, it takes a long time to change some of those legacy systems.
Especially if they are running mission critical applications.
They have to wait for the developers (outside) of some tools to upgrade those applications, then test all to see if they work as needed and work together.
If they go down, the company can be really stuck, so they watch, test and wait.
It's not as easy as changing from Office 2003 to Office 2007 (well, that's mostly a cost issue - not the most critical expense this year).
Though as I walk around my coworkers, many of us have installed Firefox (and some Chrome or Safari or even Opera, I suppose) for our internet work.
Actually kind of nice - I know whether I'm inside or outside the company by the browser I bring up.
AnotherScratchMonkey - upgrade time and expense is also keeping some companies on XP.
Even the replacement of our leased machines coming this fall will be Windows XP (or so I heard last week).
Well, I'm still using XP at home and haven't seen a need to upgrade from IE6 as I seldom use it.
Wenn es nicht spassig ist, ist es nicht richtig gemacht.
--WindowsXP: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19;
Asus Linux (Xandro)
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Quote: : there's a limited window of opportunity
I wouldn't say it's all that limited really considering the speed at which most companies upgrade their operating systems.
OK, I'm sure most will skip Vista and go straight to Windows 7, most won't be doing so until they absolutely must - i.e.
When Microsoft stop support for XP in 2014.
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US State Department rejects Firefox in favor of IE6:
http://gizmodo.com/5315634/us-state-dep ...
S#comments
How valid are the comments about centralized management of Mozilla software?
How hard is it to centrally lock down Firefox in a secure environment, or to patch it on many computers where end users don't have administrative access?
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Dont't know.
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Configuration ...
Nistrators Think for yourself.
Otherwise you have to believe what other people tell you.
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Quote: : US State Department rejects Firefox in favor of IE6
No wonder their 'security' is laughable.
They're shooting themselves in the foot.
SeaMonkey.be , XUL MSN Messenger , Phantasy Star Cave
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I can understand the cost objection if there's no central management for FF to both upgrade it and lock it down.
And I can understand the cost objection to upgrading IE6 because of the cost of upgrading internal apps to IE8.
So for FF to achieve penetration in large organizations with management costs, it badly needs a central management and upgrade system (similar to Group Policy and WSUS, possibly integrated into them).
You have to make it attractive to the MIS people.
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