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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 10 2019, @05:22PM
It's a shame the government is allowed to use proprietary software at all. But, with how bought and paid for our government is, I'm not surprised that no one sees it as a problem that it's entirely dependent upon corporations.