

Stale software products are endangering users, says Microsoft








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RE: Discongruities?
By drycrust3 on 1/18/2010 10:32:16 AM , Rating: 2
Yes, it is logical to believe those affected at Google only used IE6 because they HAD to, but what if they didn't? What if their job was in accounts or somewhere unrelated to testing of websites?
As I understand their business, they are primarily a search engine supplier, not a website designer, so why the need to run IE6? Isn't Chrome sufficiently good for most of their work?
As an aside, I guess Microsoft's allusion to "other operating systems" does include Ubuntu.

I'm just wondering how bad things will have to get before Microsoft release a Linux distribution or a Linux compatible version of Internet Explorer.

RE: Discongruities?
By pbrutsch on 1/18/2010 10:46:26 AM , Rating: 3
Google Chrome is consumer-oriented and is a bad choice in a lot of corporate networks.

The lack of SSO (ie Kerberos or NTLM), the almost total lack of centralized control over the browser configuration, the very bad practice of installing the binaries in the user profile location...

Oh, and MS did have a version of IE for *NIX... more than 10 years ago.

RE: Discongruities?
By ipay on 1/18/2010 1:36:47 PM , Rating: 2

Yeah, I'm sure that Microsoft will try to get IE on every OS now. I mean it's not like the EU is going to accuse them of being a monopoly, and it's not like desktop Linux has a completely insignificant marketshare.

Oh wait.

