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

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In article <7rm0ssFre4U4 at mid.individual.net>, billg999 at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) writes:
>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.  :-)

Not my experience from speaking with my friends still working at Lakehurst.

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