We're sorry, but our 10s of 1000s of dollar software requires IE. WTF?!?!

[vicrock]

All of our business apps run only on IE for Windoze. This is causing huge problems with our volunteer base, as more and more of them get smart and migrate to other browsers or God forbid Macs.

I have a PC in the office that is used ONLY for online databases, training and webinars that require IE for Windoze.

[anonymouse1]

Ditto for our office.

[ztirffritz]

I'm lucky because Boeing requires us to use Firefox instead of IE to access their data. That is the only reason that I'm allowed to install FF on computers in my building.

[decay]

LCD (lowest common denominator) rules.

[Filliam H. Muffman]

vicrock wrote: I have a PC in the office that is used ONLY for online databases, training and webinars that require IE for Windoze.

QFE.

Nearly Worst-Case-Scenario: The vendor expects you to access the data from a single-use monolithic vertically integrated workstation with a frozen software configuration: hardware, OS, Apps, running on a dedicated VPN, with no internet access and NO updates except for approved critical security updates.

The not quite so bad news is that Win7 and Server 2008 R2 can allow you to do this with it running as a sandboxed VM in a single Terminal Server session using RDS. (woohoo, quadruple keyword/acronym bonus!)

[Article Accelerator]

AAA wrote:
Businesses run on IE, pretty much.
We are a huge shop. Hardly any consideration is given for non-IE browser platforms.

If your web-based systems are outward-facing, you are rejecting 35% of your potential customers.

[Mr645]

These days I would expect an online data management or database vendor to not only support virtually any browser/platform, but also smart devices, iPhone, Blackberries etc.