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IE Standardization Fading Fast

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the So-long-farewell-auf-weidersehen-goodbye dept.

alphadogg writes "Just as Internet users in general have defected in huge numbers from Microsoft Internet Explorer over the past several years, the business world, as well, is becoming less dependent on the venerable browser. Companies that used to mandate the use of IE for access to web resources are beginning to embrace a far more heterodox attitude toward web browsers. While it hasn't gone away, the experience of having to use IE 6 to access some legacy in-house web app is becoming less common. 'A lot of it has to do with the emergence of the modern web and the popularity of mobile. They have made it very different for companies to truly standardize on a browser,' says Gartner Research analyst David Mitchell Smith."

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  1. shit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Without Microsoft nobody will be left to defend us from the Ubuntu £inux monopoly.

    1. Re:shit by bidule · · Score: 4, Funny

      Yeah. Micro$oft, £inux, Appl€. The Unholy Trinity.

      Now, if Son¥ was in there, we'd have the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

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      ID: the nose did not occur naturally, how would we wear glasses otherwise? (apologies to Voltaire)
    2. Re:shit by drakaan · · Score: 3, Funny

      Can't take it...

      <grammarnazi>'affects' is a verb (not in this sentence, but in normal use). 'effects' is a noun.</grammarnazi>

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      "Murphy was an optimist" - O'Toole's commentary on Murphy's Law
  2. Re:Gratifying by symbolset · · Score: 3, Funny

    "But it is cross platform. It works in IE8 AND IE9."

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    Help stamp out iliturcy.