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I think it would be most sensible to at least create a strategy for moving away from IE6. The UK government's current stance doesn't address the problem .. it postpones doing anything until support runs out in 2014. What will happen then?
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No IE6 won't be around forever, but if, in 2014, they can directly upgrade to IE10, say, then they will have avoided going IE6->IE8->IE10 and thus have saved the cost of an upgrade. Makes sense to me.
The problem is with this argument is that you can keep applying it forever. Also, a number of relatively smaller steps are easier to manage than one single big step.
That said, I still don't agree with using ie6.
I think it would be most sensible to at least create a strategy for moving away from IE6. The UK government's current stance doesn't address the problem .. it postpones doing anything until support runs out in 2014. What will happen then?
They'll force MS to give them another 5 years.
They should at least install Chrome Plugin.
To test all the web applications currently used by HMG departments can take months at significant potential cost to the taxpayer.
They should at least install Chrome Plugin.
The problem isn't on the client, it's on the server. Using the Chrome plugin would break their apps just as well as using Chrome itself. To test all the web applications currently used by HMG departments can take months at significant potential cost to the taxpayer.
This is like saying that saving taxpayers money today is saving the taxpayers money in general. This is totally untrue - 5 years of malware, support tickets, etc. that need not be there costs way more than doing the transition now versus having to do it later anyway.
Despite the last paragraph in the article, another reason for refusing to upgrade is the costs involved in service pack upgrades. IE 7 is only available for Windows XP SP2 and higher. Upgrading to SP2 was traumatic for many organizations, so quite a few did not roll it out. No upgrade from SP2? Well, IE 6 and only IE 6 it is then. A related issue: IE 8 offers the ability to run in IE 7 compatibility mode, with the in…
When support eventually runs out then the benefits of switching will clearly outweigh the costs, but at a time when we're talking about reducing the number of MPs and selling off whole government departments, I can't blame them. Maybe the last government could have averted this, maybe not, but at the moment we're such deep economic shit that it's just not a priority.
(disclosure: I voted Tory, I hate IE, I enjoy both sandwiches and tea)
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They'll force MS to give them another 5 years.
or MS could give them a pricepoint just slightly lower than what it cost to do a proper upgrade?