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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. It's well deserved. by mosb1000 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Anyone still using IE 8 deserves to be left out in the cold. Modern browsers are free, and work much better than that ancient piece of crap. If your IT department doesn't have it's shit together enough to let you run a real web browser, you can't expect most of the internet to work for you either. Don't complain to Google, you should seriously be considering replacing whoever it is who is making your IT decisions for you.

  2. Re:Lucky bastards by nedlohs · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The codebase he supports is supposed to work with a given COBOL system.

    Whereas said web crap that has to support IE6, also has to work with IE7, and IE8, and IE9, and Firefox, and Chrome, and Safari. And it has to "look good" in the recent browsers without looking like crap in IE6.

  3. Thank you by maroberts · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Couldn't have put it better myself, except you missed out supporting phone browsing too. :-)

    I can program in COBOL and its easier than supporting several generations of browsers.

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  4. Re:Lucky bastards by justforgetme · · Score: 4, Insightful

    IMHO chrome has become too much of a behemoth. I'd migrate them to Firefox. A fresh OS with chrome on a 7 year old laptop grinds to a halt on the first page. The same setup is perfectly usable with an up to date Firefox

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