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posted by martyb on Sunday February 10 2019, @02:00AM   Printer-friendly
from the On-the-edge dept.

Submitted via IRC for SoyCow1984

Microsoft begs you to stop using Internet Explorer

In a blog post, Microsoft senior cybersecurity architect Chris Jackson said continuing to use Internet Explorer is racking up companies a ton of "technical debt." Essentially, by continuing to use IE, organizations are creating additional costs down the line by selecting the easiest, most convenient solution now rather than the approach that is best for the long term. Jackson laid out a scenario in which a company, choosing the easiest possible route since Internet Explorer 6, goes to make a webpage today and ends up using a 1999 implementation of web standards by default.


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  • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 10 2019, @02:30AM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 10 2019, @02:30AM (#798976)

    Standards are not standard.

    I use 4 browsers today on windows 10
    1) IE because old equipment - printer’s even new ones do not work with anything else
    2) Edge best for hardware monitoring equipment & warehouse management
    3) Firefox best for scan gun management
    4) Chrime “basic” web and printer management software

    Yup based on what you need to do I have to pick right browser. IE is best for “old”. I have one piece of hard that only works with 2003 java engines. All modern browser refuse!

    Yes we have ME and XP in system still to manage large special hardware

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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by crafoo on Sunday February 10 2019, @03:02AM

    by crafoo (6639) on Sunday February 10 2019, @03:02AM (#798979)

    Ahh the glorious cross-platform future smart web pages and web apps have brought us all! GUI elements changing look and behavior page-to-page! What will pressing the spacebar do in _this_ video player? Who Knows! You like surprises, everyone likes surprises. Press it and find out!

  • (Score: 3, Funny) by Runaway1956 on Sunday February 10 2019, @03:30AM

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Sunday February 10 2019, @03:30AM (#798985) Journal

    That's the second typo today to make me grin. Chrime browser. Or, was it a typo on Google's part? "We're going to commit a lot of crimes with our new Chrome browser!"

  • (Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Sunday February 10 2019, @01:21PM

    by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Sunday February 10 2019, @01:21PM (#799091) Homepage Journal

    - Idea.

    I cannot print envelopes on $$$$ NedSpace's truly-high end HP Enterprise Printer because HP'S OWN SOFTWARE!!!!! does NOT support OS X.

    The day after Soggy Jobs' Indiegogo Launch on Wednesday the 20th [soggy.jobs] $HINT_HINT I'm going to drop a few hundred pieces of direct mail to those of my listed companies that provide their street addresses on their sites. That means I MUST print envelopes. Even the very shittiest inkjet would do.

    But I Am Determined Not To Be Beaten.

    So I'll install Windows 7 in a VM, then print envelopes from there.

    (Why the day after Indiegogo launch? So my cover letter can point out the - I Pray To Baby Jesus! - huge success of my launch day.)

    --
    Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]