I have no idea what any of that means, Slackers.
I'm all over the latest version of Chrome at home.
making sure their site works in an outdated, superseeded web-browser
Quote from: magpie on July 12, 2011, 11:42:38 amI'm all over the latest version of Chrome at home. Magpie may I introduce you to a good friend of mine.
A bit but why do big firms / govt agencies seem to have such a problem "upgrading" their web browsers to something that isn't totally shit and outdated? Is it not just a question of telling everyone to download whatever new browser they want people to use as the standard one and why would something that's free cost a fortune to implement? I don't get it.
Maybe if web based office software becomes trusted something like http://www.google.com/chromebook/ might help this problem disappear. Google looking after you IT might fill some with dread, but at least things would be kept up to date.
That's right, the whole of ukcatswearinglipgloss.com is now on Google+. A bit but why do big firms / govt agencies seem to have such a problem "upgrading" their web browsers to something that isn't totally shit and outdated? Is it not just a question of telling everyone to download whatever new browser they want people to use as the standard one and why would something that's free cost a fortune to implement? I don't get it.
A bigger problem for large companies is that software companies (and Slackers, I might add open source collectives) release feature laden but completely insecure, buggy, english only and un-backwards compatible products that rarely work as promised. The cost/benefit of staying well behind the curve when it comes to software releaseses is well apparent.
The cost/benefit of staying well behind the curve when it comes to software releaseses is well apparent.
Quote from: Jaspersharpe on July 13, 2011, 04:35:32 pmA bit but why do big firms / govt agencies seem to have such a problem "upgrading" their web browsers to something that isn't totally shit and outdated? Is it not just a question of telling everyone to download whatever new browser they want people to use as the standard one and why would something that's free cost a fortune to implement? I don't get it.No real idea, but often computers in large coroporations are "cloned" from a standard image, and the ability to install and upgrade software by the people who use them day to day is disabled (for security reasons as many people may well allow malicious software to be installed) and I guess in part it comes down to the way in which such systems are remotely managed, but also will often require a technically illiterate manager to sign-off on the upgrade when they may well fear being responsible for things going wrong if they do. There may also be an element of "It should 'just workTM' why do we need to upgrade?" at play with such managers.