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Microsoft Vista, IE7 Banned By U.S. DOT
An anonymous reader writes "According to a memo being reported on by Information week, the US Department of Transportation has issued a moratorium on upgrading Microsoft products. Concerns over costs and compatability issues has lead the federal agency to prevent upgrades from XP to Vista, as well as to stop users from moving to IE 7 and Office 2007. As the article says, 'In a memo to his staff, DOT chief information officer Daniel Mintz says he has placed "an indefinite moratorium" on the upgrades as "there appears to be no compelling technical or business case for upgrading to these new Microsoft software products. Furthermore, there appears to be specific reasons not to upgrade."'"
IE7 sucks like shit, other than it's a copy from Firefox, it has numerous issues with other product mainly Outlook 2003 and that's just the tip of the iceberg.
It is irrational to install IE7 without testing it with other software, adding too much securities can seriously impair web base application and if you deploy this on a large number of user that uses those web base application, better get ready to do overtime getting that first stupid setting setup page and all the pop-up and active x blocker done, the user wont do it.