[Info-vax] OT: so, even Microsoft says IE6 is crap

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <QmOpoR7upyhC at eisner.encompasserve.org>,
	koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) writes:
> In article <00d11d5f$0$26802$c3e8da3 at news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:
>> 
>>> IE6 is from 2001.
>> 
>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8465038.stm
>> 
>> European governments are asking people to stop using all versions of IE,
>> including IE8 because they are all unsafe.
> 
>    Not particularly new.  The US Federal governement has asked people to
>    use IE only when no other browser will work with a site for a great
>    many years, now.

I don't know which "Federal Government" you are dealing with but
within DOD it is pretty much IE on the system and the user does
not have the needed rights to install another browser.  I was
actually (pleasantly) surprised to find the standard image at DISA
had Mozilla on it in addition to IE.  A good thing, too as there
were a number of official sites we used that didn't work wirh IE.  :-)
    
bill

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