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