Michael Adams wrote:
On Saturday 09 July 2011 04:49, david wrote:
And we've been through this before. My employer uses IE6 for its
1600+ employees. We do this because some of our mission-critical
corporate web apps don't work in anything except IE6 (including
newer versions of IE).
And for solutions to *YOUR* CSS issues - of which there will be many:
Install another browser beside IE in your industry. Firefox, Chrome,
Opera or Safari - i don't care.
We have Firefox 3 for browsing YouTube (where we have a channel). When
they installed it, we were told that if we used it to browse the
Internet, we would experience problems. (Yes, out of touch is one of
their defining attributes.)
Mark all your "mission critical" apps as legacy and start seeking
replacements ASAP.
Easy for you to say. You're talking about very large, very complex apps
that cost lots of money and 2-3 years of hard work even to upgrade, let
alone replace. It's not like general office software et al; there aren't
a lot of replacements.
Prevent IE from accessing through the corporate firewall because it is
an inherent security threat.
We have several layers of security beyond mere firewalls. I've worked
there 4 years so far. During that time, we've had only 2 bits of
maliciousness get through - and those were when executive MS Outlook
users were using their laptops at home (outside of the defenses) and
clicked on links in spam emails ... Those bits didn't successfully
infect any other corporate systems when the executives came back to the
office and hooked into the network.
Like security issues of Windows XP, those of IE6 can be managed.
Perhaps pinhole the firewall for any
external servers that run your mission critical apps on.
Our mission critical apps are not accessible from outside.
To do anything less could put your corporate, employee and customer
data at risk because the Trident engine was seriously flawed.
True, it is. It is also one where the security risks are pretty well
known and can be protected against.
Personally, I think Flash and PDF have more, and more are being
discovered all the time.
This is
a serious issue that should be given a high priority corporate wide.
Everything's more important than everything else.
I'll leave the last word on this to Microsoft.
http://www.ie6countdown.com/
Yep, the IS folk that handle this are aware of it. I've no idea what
they'll do if XP is discontinued!
--
David
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