Another study asked the question why companies have IE6 at work?
The old comments for this is that software will only work on IE6 or the operating system environment or network is not compatible (OLD) etc.
This is actually a very small percent of the IE6 userbase, the real reasons stem from lazy or poor IT departments and costs.
The study showed that the software that is supposed to only work in IE6 actually works in IE7 or other browsers and/or has updates (more then one) to meet modern browsers,OSs etc. The other reason IE6 exists on networked machines is due to the poor environment they are installed on, meaning there is no one easy method to push an update to all machines in a company. Each machine would have to be dealt with and so on.
Yeah there are other good reasons like budget etc in a number of cases but overall there is no real excuses for this any more.
One way or another IE6 can go and users would upgrade if they could.
Difficult to install? Any business that reaches the 5-15 PCs has like got or consider at the very least a Server of some sorts that uses an AD Domain. It would be simple to push out software through Group Policy through such an enviroment, and even in the smaller enviroments that number of PCs is hardly a chore to update.
Of course there are reasons old software and browsers are still being run. I have a group of surveyors that I look after and I cant install anything over Adobe Reader 5.0 for the software that generates the reports for completed commercial surveys, guess what its the biggest leading
software vendor for survey and mortgage valuation. Thats a case of there is nothing else on the market of the shelf, not time, money or effort.
http://www.questuk.com/Framework/ProductContent.aspx?pagename=ProductDataweb.htmTo get round it, we are having use an independant software developer create an entirely hosted SQL panel to eliminate for the need internal servers which are simply middle men to quest web databases, and what is a method of dealing with jobs before Internet bandwidth existed.
There are reasons there are call centres in Magna Park, the biggest distribution centre in Europe are using a Windows 2000 enviroment on desktops, I should know, Ive audited places like that.
Money, time, resources, hR, finance depts, meetings, directors meetings, more important matters in daily company schedules, It has nothing to do with being lazy, its often the case the reason is more complicated or elabourate and very often not for technical reasons. Try getting work approved when there are 5 directors and meet once a month. Approving time for an on site audit is hardly top of their agenda.
I work with a number of different business across Leicestershire, Warwickshire, Northamptonshire as their IT department whatever their requirements, if there are things Ive learnt in this game, IT is not one size fits all.
Generalisations about workplaces, IT departments, company work structures, attitudes are simply not going to get you taken seriously nor are they correct.
"Digg Have Said So", you might as well be saying God has spoken to me, or my mate Terry that works in IBM. You should no better to take Internet Articles on face value.
You wouldnt question a national news paper printing healthy girls dies of swine flu when you know full well there hasnt been a coroners report yet now would you.
