Daniel Friesen wrote:
IT departments need to start maintaining their
computers and employees
need to start demanding that the computers they work with are kept to
modern standards.
People keep bringing up legacy apps as a reason that IT departments
cannot give employees a properly maintained browser environment.
But as I explained that's BS because there are other options than simply
upgrading IE. The argument that it would be confusing to employees is
also BS because that's easily covered by making everyone use
Firefox/Chrome/etc... for all web browsing and placing shortcuts on the
desktop that open up pages in IE to make it look like the internal
systems are apps rather than websites. Well, that or using chrome frame.
So basically this boils it down to pointing it out that the arguments
saying that a proper browsing environment "can't" be provided is BS. And
this is not something they can't do, it's just something they won't.
Which is a case we should not be catering to and enabling.
Right... well, again, just like the OP, you're focusing on how you feel the
world should be while completely ignoring reality. It's not a matter of
catering to obstinate IT folks. It's a matter of being pragmatic about the
current landscape and its limitations.
MZMcBride