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Google Kills Apps Support For Internet Explorer 8

Posted by timothy on from the start-at-the-feet-and-kill-up dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Google today [Friday] announced it is discontinuing support for Internet Explorer 8 in Google Apps, including its Business, Education, and Government editions. The kill date is November 15, 2012. After that, IE8 users accessing Google Apps will see a message recommending that they upgrade their browser."

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  1. Re:It's well deserved. by mosb1000 · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    HTML5 has been coming down the pipeline for quite a while now. There're no excuse for not being ready for it. If you're picking external applications, don't pick someone using ancient technology. If you're developing internal applications, future proofing is even easier. If you already know that IE breaks compatibility with every new release, and that they have a great deal of difficulty keeping to standards, so you shouldn't have been using IE in the first place. There has always been a better, more standard compliant browser available. If you're not aware of that, it means you don't know what you're doing. If you'd started to switch to applications compatible with Firefox or Chrome years ago, you'd pretty much be ready for IE 10 today.

    I don't know how you can honestly spin this as anything other than gross incompetence. The only reason IT departments operate this way and get away with it is leadership that doesn't have the technical knowledge to understand the magnitude of their incompetence.