Goodbye IE6
In my day job working for a small IT consultancy, I often come across corporate IT systems still using Internet Explorer 6 as the default browser.
When we recommend upgrading, we often get the response that some of their most used sites only work with IE6. These sites tend to be goverment departments (e.g the UK land registry was one), and so we shrug our sholders and move on.
Yesterday we had a request to our helpdesk from an IT department to assist in helping diagnose why a user was unable to access a particular government site (this time the UK gambling commission). After some quick diagnosis we discovered that the site did not work with IE6, but worked happily with IE7 and 8. HURRAY!! We now had a senior employee who needed a newer version of IE. A company upgrade plan is now being drawn up. Shame we couldn't get them to go for Firefox or Chrome.... but hopefully we are seeing the end of the hateful IE6!
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