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Re: Google Apps dropping support for older browsers

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Post by tomjen3 »

brudgers wrote: post #8

Dropping support for older browsers shows why Google Apps will continue to struggle against Microsoft products for government contracts such as was the case recently in San Francisco. Large organizations get locked into legacy OS's for many reasons - example government agencies who bought and rely on geospatial data in Autodesk Mapguide format. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mapguide http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servle…

Well then they will just have to unlock themself - we can't wait for the slow people to catch up if we are ever to get close to the future.

Personally I was hoping that they would remove the support from the search site, which may yet happen.

Re: Google Apps dropping support for older browsers

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Post by nodata »

ysangkok wrote: post #31
camwest wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We deal with a large enterprise that uses old versions of IE and whenever our support team encounters one we just upgrade them to Chrome. Sadly we can't recommend any other browser since they all require admin access for some reason.

You can get Firefox and Opera in portable versions that don't require admin rights.

Don't make things so complicated!

If you want to install Firefox, get the normal Firefox download, and install it on your desktop (i.e. choose a path which you have write access to)

You only need Admin rights to install system wide or overwrite system binaries.

Re: Google Apps dropping support for older browsers

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Post by zmmmmm »

Well if Microsoft feels threatened by Google Apps, they know what to do: release IE10 quick smart and watch the entire corporate and government world suddenly not be potential customers of Google any more as Google drops support for IE8 (and hence Windows XP).

Re: Google Apps dropping support for older browsers

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Post by kmfrk »

buster wrote: post #10

Sad to see they don't even mention Opera. I don't use it, but it should run google apps without problems. Also i know very big companies that still use IE6, sadly. For those people stuck without admin access and ancient browsers: Give Firefox Portable a try, it saved my day last week ;) Apart from that, go google go! I like this move and more websites should just do this..

Google do not so much forget about Opera as deliberately work against it.

They are well aware of its existence.

I can only assume they want people to migrate to Chrome.

Re: Google Apps dropping support for older browsers

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Post by dspillett »

brudgers wrote: post #8

Dropping support for older browsers shows why Google Apps will continue to struggle against Microsoft products for government contracts such as was the case recently in San Francisco. Large organizations get locked into legacy OS's for many reasons - example government agencies who bought and rely on geospatial data in Autodesk Mapguide format. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mapguide http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servle…

At this point MS want IE6 (and 7) to die as much as everyone else does, as it has become a source of embarrassment.

Even MS's own online office applications don't support IE6 and have not done so since the back end of 2009 (see http://blogs.msdn.com/b/officewebapps/archive/2009/08/05/985... for confirmation). Not supporting IE8 would be a problem (a number of our banking clients are in the process of transitioning away from IE6, but unfortunately only onto IE8 and I assume many government bodies are in a similar position) which is possibly why Google have drawn the line there, but if not supporting IE6 is an issue then Microsoft's online products will be affected as much as Google's. IE7 is pretty much moot in my experience: I don't know of any environment that upgraded to 7 which stuck with it, those that stuck with IE6 are either still stuck there or are upgrading to 8 or something more modern and those who moved to 7 have moved again.

Re: Google Apps dropping support for older browsers

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Post by sp332 »

Pewpewarrows wrote: post #15
buster wrote: post #10

Sad to see they don't even mention Opera. I don't use it, but it should run google apps without problems. Also i know very big companies that still use IE6, sadly. For those people stuck without admin access and ancient browsers: Give Firefox Portable a try, it saved my day last week ;) Apart from that, go google go! I like this move and more websites should just do this..

Didn't the Google team also make Chrome now usable/installable without Admin rights?

Yes, by default in Windows it installs to the user's "Application Data" folder instead of the system-wide "Program Files".
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