I hope this is because they haven't updated the content of the page in a while.
recent access logs with requests from VW still show IE6 :-/
The Volkswagen Group is using IE6 as standard for displaying web pages
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Re: The Volkswagen Group is using IE6 as standard for displaying web pages
#22Somebody please explain to me what new browsers have that a car manufacturing corporation needs for its daily business. Flash games? WebGL? Or a bit lower, popup-blocker and google search field?
HELLO?
Obviously this entry is for unexperienced people of the IT, which neglect the fact that your stuff is only safe as long someone hasn't found it's weakness.
AND - CAN YOU BELIEVE IT, REVERSI!
Re: The Volkswagen Group is using IE6 as standard for displaying web pages
#23For a well-designed website, I must say, I'm a bit worried. > The cooperation takes place by our Group Business Platform using current security standards and ciphering methods. A secure data interchange has high priority! Because that's all there is to security. > All data is transferred with a 128 Bit SSL coding and are even secured by your log in on our Group Business Platform. This ciphering method is used in all…
You forgot this bit in the technical requirements: -PC or MAC with internet connection -Web Browser (Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 is recommended) So... they mean a (pretty old) PC with internet connection then?
There was an IE for Unix. So there's some HPUX boxes that could have been running some version of IE. I have no idea what version it got to. I have never met anyone who used it.
Re: The Volkswagen Group is using IE6 as standard for displaying web pages
#24Somebody please explain to me what new browsers have that a car manufacturing corporation needs for its daily business. Flash games? WebGL? Or a bit lower, popup-blocker and google search field? HELLO? Obviously this entry is for unexperienced people of the IT, which neglect the fact that your stuff is only safe as long someone hasn't found it's weakness. http://youtu.be/sforhbLiwLA AND - CAN YOU BELIEVE IT, REVERSI!
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Re: The Volkswagen Group is using IE6 as standard for displaying web pages
#25Somebody please explain to me what new browsers have that a car manufacturing corporation needs for its daily business. Flash games? WebGL? Or a bit lower, popup-blocker and google search field? HELLO? Obviously this entry is for unexperienced people of the IT, which neglect the fact that your stuff is only safe as long someone hasn't found it's weakness. http://youtu.be/sforhbLiwLA AND - CAN YOU BELIEVE IT, REVERSI!
"Obviously this entry is for unexperienced people of the IT"
They are giving the unexperianced wrong information and making them misinformed. If they want to help the unexperianced, they shouldn't tell them that a secure experience can be guaranteed with IE6. They should encourage them to use modern browsers which are still regularly supported with security patches.
Re: The Volkswagen Group is using IE6 as standard for displaying web pages
#26This'd just be a case of yet another page that's never been updated. I think my bank's site recommends either IE or netscape - site works fine, just that no one's ever updated the required browser page
Though claiming IE6 was the most secure web browser in 2009 is still pretty worrying.
Re: The Volkswagen Group is using IE6 as standard for displaying web pages
#27Somebody please explain to me what new browsers have that a car manufacturing corporation needs for its daily business. Flash games? WebGL? Or a bit lower, popup-blocker and google search field? HELLO? Obviously this entry is for unexperienced people of the IT, which neglect the fact that your stuff is only safe as long someone hasn't found it's weakness. http://youtu.be/sforhbLiwLA AND - CAN YOU BELIEVE IT, REVERSI!
"Obviously this entry is for unexperienced people of the IT" They are giving the unexperianced wrong information and making them misinformed. If they want to help the unexperianced, they shouldn't tell them that a secure experience can be guaranteed with IE6. They should encourage them to use modern browsers which are still regularly supported with security patches.
honey you DID read it's in their B2B folder? So this is for BUSINESS TO BUSINESS and they want to interact in a secure way with small companies which probably have 0 IT professionals and old software.
You only prove me ..
Re: The Volkswagen Group is using IE6 as standard for displaying web pages
#28For some reason the corporate world is still stuck with IE6. Just recently we were dealing with a large corporation that was still using IE6 throughout the company and our web app had to support this browser.
The reason in Germany is mainly SAP (because of its popularity here) Their Netweaver product was build with lots of ActiveX + OS stuff that's so proprietary, that it will not work with even IE7. Of course SAP has released upgrades but companies have to pay for it or change larger parts of their ERP to be able to apply the upgrades. As ERPs are propably upgraded once per decade, this will take some time... From variou…
Working in a ~50000 employee company that shall remain nameless I can give you another datapoint from "big companies" out there:
We only got IE8 (on WinXP, Win7 will not launch for another year or two) this year. And before that it was whatever IE version ships with WinXP.
The alternative we can use is a Firefox that has not been updated since its rollout in 2009. And of course you are not allowed to use other than company-managed software, especially web-browsers are tightly regulated, exceptions granted only for a few chosen employees.
The policy regarding webbrowsers explicitly states that this is done to avoid having people running outdated versions of them...
Re: The Volkswagen Group is using IE6 as standard for displaying web pages
#29I think this document is pretty old as they have mentioned Netscape which is no longer exists.
And even didn't notices Google Chrome. :-)
Re: The Volkswagen Group is using IE6 as standard for displaying web pages
#30I can understand- at my last job (multi-national CPG manufacturer) the code on all the internal webpages wouldn't even display in Firefox. Between the IT workload and general paranoia / superstition of execs (any change is bad), there was no motivation to upgrade internal software. So we made all of our suppliers comply if they wanted access to any piece of the intranet. Just easier that way.
For companies that don't rely heavily on internet tech, understanding why you don't want to use IE6 is beyond most people.