![]() But when it comes to computers, outside the tech industry, executives are of a mind of "that's what I hire you for" all the way down the line. They understand how a cash register works, and how labor hours should be distributed. A CEO understands that a bathroom should be cleaned and stocked. They do this in every other field of their business. I understand fully that it's a very real cost, but I also advocate that executives should understand a modicum of what they're paying their employees to do, including IT work - by doing so, they'd really lower those costs and/or make the IT department a lot more efficient. In another example, I actually had to instruct one of their IT 'professionals' on how to determine the version of IE that was installed on the system, in order to debug a problem line in my javascript. This was a meeting directly related to the development of a new website to serve as a non-public means of distributing pricelists and other information. I had a "security meeting" with a "team of security professionals" where I needed to explain what one-way hashing was, and why their current website/database was sorely lacking in this regard. It's an -ocracy of a sort that relies on "more learned than thou", which means job security. The trouble is, in a corporate environment where the real decision makers are often computer-illiterate, they are forced to concede decisions to "people in the know". I know high-schoolers who could do a better job. He was skating.Ī lot of these guys float on the 3 months it took them to pass the MS cert tests (years ago) and baffle other employees with words and terminology more complex than need-be. One IT professional I knew who managed IT for an entire hotel spent more time walking back and forth from his office to outside to smoke than he ever did sitting at a computer. These guys spent most days sitting around doing jack shit in their office, literally playing video games. They put off the IE8-to-IE10 switch solely because of "lack of time". In my experience, corporate IT is a joke. If MS can keep Edge on that sort of cycle then a lot of the pain that exists (will exist) with IE1-11 will go away and there will be much rejoicing. ![]() So the only thing that matters is web standards and then we finally achieve a glorious utopia (I hope). So the best strategy for users to maintain compatibility is to stay updated and developers (even poor ones) stop developing browser specific code because there isn't a specific browser version to target. And users who don't are effectively forced to because they're a minority, the web doesn't wait around or cater to them and there's no real good way to isolate versions when the updates are granular and incremental enough. So incremental Edge updates would be good because no one worries about Firefox 10 or Chrome 10 or any specific version for that matter, because nearly all users update. Even MS is feeling that pain and it ends up being bad PR because people forced to use old and outdated MS software just come away feeling like MS sucks and seeing how far IE dominance has fallen over the past 10 years MS is keenly aware that IE and their previous IE strategy is a losing proposition. And Edge is supposed to be different because MS wants to roll out incremental updates like Chrome/Firefox rather than these monolithic versions that hang around and need to be supported for years and years and years and prevent us from taking advantage of more modern browsers. But IE has such a bad rap at this point that MS does't want to deal with it. Or You can freely upgrade to Windows 10 OS, the comes with new Edge browser (read our previous article on Why you should upgrade to Windows 10?)īut we recommend completely avoiding Internet Explorer browser and explore the web using the powerful Google Chrome browser or Mozilla Firefox browser , that offers the real-time and automatic upgrade to latest versions and security updates, speedy browsing and highly customizable with themes, apps and extensions.Arguably yes.If you are running Windows 7 OS or Windows 8 OS, you can download the Internet Explorer 11.How to upgrade your Internet Explorer browser Internet Explorer 11 is the last version of Internet Explorer, and will continue to receive security updates, compatibility fixes, and technical support on Windows 7, Windows 8.1, and Windows 10. Beginning January 12, 2016, only the most current version of Internet Explorer available for a supported operating system will receive technical supports and security updates.
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