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Microsoft Begs You to Stop Using Internet Explorer

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

upstart writes:

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: 5, Insightful) by acid andy on Sunday February 10 2019, @01:11PM (2 children)

    by acid andy (1683) on Sunday February 10 2019, @01:11PM (#799086) Homepage Journal

    It took over a year to get that one straightened out until the head of the department finally had his computer replaced and suddenly understood our complaints when he couldn't use the application which required pressing F12.

    FFS, if such a simple concept takes direct experience for them to comprehend it, they shouldn't be in management. Unless of course, as is more likely, they only care about it when it annoys them directly. That kind of sociopathy is counter-productive of course, because the business is losing money while employees have to work around crap like that.

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  • (Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Sunday February 10 2019, @01:45PM

    by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Sunday February 10 2019, @01:45PM (#799098) Homepage Journal

    "Whenever we get a new computer, we have to wait six months for an expert to fly out from Washington, then another month for him to bless it."
    -- Lt. Charles Russell "Russ" Crawford USN (Ret.)

    While Dad was quite proud of his Top Secret Clearance, I am _dead_ _certain_ he was cleared to do Signals Intelligence work.

    I'd rather not tell you more than what he _specifically_ told me one day, but I have really good reasons to believe he really did do SIGINT:

    "Mike?"

    "Yes, Dad?"

    "Aboard submarines there are some black boxes."

    (I have it on good authority that actually, they are grey.)

    "And there are some quiet men who tend to those black boxes."

    My father was a quiet man.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 10 2019, @08:27PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 10 2019, @08:27PM (#799206)

    He is an old-money political appointee. Other than being skilled at bullshitting and the ole' Wine and Dine, he can barely function. My desk partner literally had to show him how to unlock a car when the battery on his fob died, literally ever single virus breakout we've had starts with him, he routinely falls for phishing attempts, and he claims to be gluten-free, but has no problem eating the gluten-loaded wheat toast after using the "gluten-free" setting on the office toaster.