Philip <none@xxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> Mark Kent wrote:
>> Mark Kent <mark.kent@xxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>> Philip <none@xxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>>> Firefox reaches 18 percent of corporate desktops
>>>>>
>>>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>>> | This number will seem low to those who have seen higher numbers elsewhere
>>>>> | (for example, as high as 30 percent in Europe). This simply reflects the bias
>>>>> | of the report toward formal enterprise adoption, a route that Mozilla has
>>>>> | explicitly not taken. Basically, Firefox is not an alternate universe into
>>>>> | which you will be banished.
>>>>> `----
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9907299-7.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=NewsBlog
>>>> In my company, we are seeing Firefox as a bridging technology to help us
>>>> move from IE6 to IE7. Because of MS' stupid maneuver of embedding IE in
>>>> the OS, the roll back to IE6 is really bad. So Firefox is used to help
>>>> those that get stuck on IE7 until the internal apps fully support IE7.
>>> Ah, so you're using Firefox to rescue you from a dumb design decision
>>> some time ago, ie., to couple your "internal" apps to closely to IE6,
>>> so that when Microsoft released IE7, it caused all kinds of problems
>>> for your *users*, you know, the poor folk you push this stuff onto.
>>>
>>> Not content with having made the mistake once, linking all your
>>> applications to IE6, you're now *repeating the same mistake* by linking
>>> them all to IE7. Frankly, I would have strong sympathy with your poor
>>> users if they formed a lynch-mob as an education exercise for their
>>> apparently terminally stupid admins and internal ICT support folk.
>>>
>>> The *sensible* choice would be, *stay with Firefox*, where things
>>> work *without* changing your apps. If you're very very lucky (and no
>>> ICT department should be relying on /luck/ as a design choice), then
>>> Firefox will be around to save your jobs again when IE8 comes along.
>>> If you're not lucky, then maybe you should brush up your CV just in case.
>>>
>>
>> That was meant to be you in the plural, not personal polite.
>>
> You intent is understood. Personally I agree with you, but I have to
> work with these Luddites.
Ahh, we all have Luddites with whom we must work :-)
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