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0 pointsphilbarr12y ago0 comments

Unfortunately the "enterprise" seem set on it. Yesterday I was working with a new content management platform and I had to downgrade my Internet Explorer to 9 because it only works with IE 7,8 and 9. Then that still didn't work because of some MSXML problem I couldn't fix and I ended up having to use a VM with XP installed and IE 8.

Un-be-lievable. I don't know who these Enterprisey IT managers are who are making these decisions but they seem to have a lot of power which they are using irresponsibly. And they seem to love IE.

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acomjean12y ago

I thought things had gotten better.

A decade ago the large company I worked for switched to a web based timecard system. The only problem, ie only and the software team of 50+ all were using hpux or solaris workstations. No ie. Oh and they wanted timecards done daily.

The solution?

Set up 2 terminals in the lab with a unix backend and a windows NT virtual environment so we can use IE to do timecards.

oneeyedpigeon12y ago

How complicated can/should a timecard system be? Surely one of those 50+ software engineers could have rewritten a portable version in a few days and saved you a lot of bother.

anon412y ago

Is that really a bad thing? You have a known working VM image to access one particular system. It will never stop working. At worst we'll just run an x86 emulator on our 10GHz 60-core ARM-based phones.

codereflection12y ago

We go through a lot of the same crud. The latest is they cannot push out IE 10 / 11 to everyone because it would require server upgrades (which is true, but very lame). :/

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