Cannot all IE7 users upgrade to IE8?
Not if it's your corporate desktop.
And in that case, you won't be able to replace your computer in this way.
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#82Beware Chinese.
They may browse your website using IE7 ON PURPOSE to get a new computer.
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#83Is it possible to hold a foundation to help people upgrade from ie7?
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#84We also make software for healthcare customers, and asked the same question re: IE7 support internally. Sadly our stats show that IE7 usage for our clients is at 59%! Down from a peak at 81% but still crazily high. We're hoping the April no support for XP deadline will change things but sadly IE7 is far from dead in UK healthcare.
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#85> We are offering to buy a new computer with a modern browser for any of our customers who are stuck with IE7 Great PR, since practically no-one is going to take them up on the offer. If you're on IE7 you're probably on it because MegaCorp's Intranet Application '02 Enterprise Edition doesn't work on anything else. Meaning the new computer will break their LOB application. It's also possible it won't cost them any mo…
IE8 has compatibility mode that will work just fine will all those "designed for IE6" pages. Same for IE9. In IE10 and 11 I found the compatibility mode to be less accurate in mimicking oldIE.
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#86Well done. But many IE7 and IE8 users aren't by choice. They are employees at large companies with no ability to upgrade their corporate computers.
You can take it from the other end. These employees are locked on IE7/8 because there's not enough external forces to make it a business issue. When they won't be able to use critical resources because of their browser or OS, the upgrade will just happen, how painful and costly it will be (as long as it's less costly than not accessing the said resources)
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#87What about IE8-9-10? I mean, I don't care, but my website frontpage still looks wrong in IE10 and I didn't do anything fancy. The overlay doesn't work in IE<10. I mean, IE is a mess in general. I wouldn’t buy a PC to all that use this terrible piece of crap, but at least we can rant about it, no? I mean, they should have said: OK, we take the pain to STILL support this shitty IE, but please stop using IE7 we will buy you a PC if you do.
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#88Earlier quoted context omitted.
I work for a F500 and we cannot upgrade to 8. We have antiquated web platforms that don't work without it. It sucks. A lot.
Doesn't MSIE8 have a MSIE7 compatability mode that basically runs the IE7 rendering engine in a wrapper (like IE tab). Can't you use MSIE7 on the internal system and have a recent browser for web access?
Sadly, the IE7 compatibility-mode is not a perfect copy: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2009/03/12/site-compatibi...
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#89> IE7 users make up 1.22% of our traffic right now, and this will decline as more computers are upgraded and can use modern browsers. No computer exists that is able to run IE7 but not IE8. And because IE7 came out way past the "optimized for IE" age, I doubt there is software around that requires 7 and doesn't work with 8. This is in contrast to 6 which is what IE was stuck in for years, so software began depending…
IE8 in IE7-compatibility mode does not always render the same as IE7 - I know because it broke a site I worked on. So it's not that simple.
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#90Earlier quoted context omitted.
"If you're on IE7 you're probably on it because MegaCorp's Intranet Application '02 Enterprise Edition doesn't work on anything else." This is what virtual machines are for...
Try teaching the HR officer who is afraid of the maximize button to use a VM. Even Windows 7 XP mode is scary - the chrome is different.
That's like a carpenter saying he's afraid to pick up a hammer. How can you be an employee and at the same time be afraid of doing your job?