When I return to work, it may be to a shitstorm

[Papa_Complex]

Apparently Microsoft will be pushing updates to the latest available version of IE to users, whether they want them or not. This will break access for maybe 50% of our users, to two significant secure online systems.

http://www.networkworld.com/news/201...oft_2011-12-20

[Rangerscott]

O hell. People get used to using the same thing over and over for years. I feel your pain.

[Papa_Complex]

Originally Posted by Rangerscott

O hell. People get used to using the same thing over and over for years. I feel your pain.

It's more than them just getting used to it. There are some web applications that simply don't work properly in IE9. Compatibility Mode isn't a guaranteed fix, either, but we'll somehow have to code for its use.

Originally Posted by Gas Man

Who cares.

Apparently you cared enough to post.

[Rangerscott]

Originally Posted by Papa_Complex

It's more than them just getting used to it. There are some web applications that simply don't work properly in IE9. Compatibility Mode isn't a guaranteed fix, either, but we'll somehow have to code for its use.



Apparently you cared enough to post.

It's the love that counts.


Yea it sucks when something new comes out and gives something else the middle finger. W7 has been pretty good to me so far on old stuff. The only thing I haven't been able to do is hook my xbox360 HD-DVD player to my PC and have it work with W7. Someone made a driver for WinXP, but W7 has no codes or something for HD-DVD. Sucks because there's a shit load of them out there and they look just as good or better than a bunch of Blurays that are out.

[Papa_Complex]

Originally Posted by Rangerscott

It's the love that counts.


Yea it sucks when something new comes out and gives something else the middle finger. W7 has been pretty good to me so far on old stuff. The only thing I haven't been able to do is hook my xbox360 HD-DVD player to my PC and have it work with W7. Someone made a driver for WinXP, but W7 has no codes or something for HD-DVD. Sucks because there's a shit load of them out there and they look just as good or better than a bunch of Blurays that are out.

You could try getting it to work in the WinXP virtual machine, for Win7. It's a bitch for memory though. Works best if you've got Win7 64 bit and a shitload of memory, from what I'm told.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/

[Rangerscott]

Originally Posted by Papa_Complex

You could try getting it to work in the WinXP virtual machine, for Win7. It's a bitch for memory though. Works best if you've got Win7 64 bit and a shitload of memory, from what I'm told.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/

Tried. It doesnt work like a full copy of XP.

[Gas Man]

Originally Posted by Papa_Complex

It's more than them just getting used to it. There are some web applications that simply don't work properly in IE9. Compatibility Mode isn't a guaranteed fix, either, but we'll somehow have to code for its use.



Apparently you cared enough to post.

NO I mean who cares if it auto updates. What's the difference?

[Papa_Complex]

Originally Posted by Gas Man

NO I mean who cares if it auto updates. What's the difference?

Who? That would be anyone who:

1) ... doesn't want someone else deciding what gets installed on their computer.

2) ... has web based applications that will only function properly with a specific version of IE, or that won't function with a specific version of IE.

They'll be pushing IE9 to systems running Win7, without bothering to ask. We've found the performance of IE9 to be rather slow. In fact I've rolled back to IE8, on about 10 systems, because users thought that their whole systems were running slow as a result of it being installed.

We also know that two of our web applications, that are necessary for operation in the university, do not function in IE9. IE8 is as far as their compatibility goes, at this point. We've got people working on compatibility, for IE9, but you can't just pull the rug out from under your clients for the hell of it.

[Gas Man]

Well I get #1 but I was waiting for the IT dept style answer.

[Gas Man]

Who cares.