France Joins Germany Over Internet Explorer Warning

[ChanandlerBong]

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France joins in:

France has echoed calls by the German government for web users to find an alternative to Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) to protect security.

Certa, a government agency that oversees cyber threats, warned against using all versions of the web browser.

[news.bbc.co.uk...]

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[Whitey]

Seems like there's the potential for other country's to join in ..... it's almost as if some countries e.g. France , Germany and China ETC can have a big PR influence over users. I wonder if they are being fed by competitors and vv to achieve strategic outcomes out of these incidents.

Talk about FUD .

[KenB]

Maybe these national warnings against IE will help speed the demise of IE6. I'd love to stop supporting it. Compared to other iterations of the various web browsers, IE6 just isn't willing to die off fast enough.

[hutcheson]

My employer still requires IE 6.

The Microsoft strategy -- to encourage companies to code critical software on top of the irreproduceable results of the IE 6 API worked: it kept the company from going to a real web browser.

Of course, even Microsoft couldn't reproduce the IE 6 bugset (assuming there was a server farm large enough to document it), so the end result is that the company can't migrate to IE 7 either.

[swa66]

Relying on the bugs produced by MSFT is what got them collectively in big and expensive trouble, yet the vast majority of them still has not figured out not to trust MSFT anymore in the future.

[hutcheson]

That's the lesson I learned.

The lesson THEY learned was "I spent 35 million dollars for that software and I'd look like a right fool if we stopped using it."

That's a direct quote, near as I can remember, one transmission jump away from the top brass.

Apparently, however, he'd look less of a fool by spending another 35 million dollars for the update.

And the lesson I learned from that is "An MBA is a license to be stoopider than mutant yeast."