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by **OC2PS** » Sun Sep 11, 2011 3:17 pm

i2Paq wrote:while people with an IQ of 130 use Opera

I would have thought Safari users are idiots considering generally how vulnerable it is...
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2392626,00.asp

by **OC2PS** » Sun Sep 11, 2011 3:24 pm

dony_b wrote:Its funny because a lot of institutions e.g banks and corporates use IE6...not sure why

It is quite bizarre, especially as IE6 is so unsafe.

But I can relate a personal story...I worked for a huge German company (this is 2009), and we were given laptops with IE6. About the first thing I did on the laptop was upgrade to IE8...about a week later, I had to enter some HR kind of stuff on the Intranet...just wasn't able to...called tech support....about 2 weeks after frentic calls and emails with tech support, it was finally gathered that the software wasn't working as I had IE8...now obviously I couldn't have both IE6 and IE8, so my IE8 was uninstalled and IE6 installed to get the intranet software to work....by the way, the software was also from a German company...the largest ERP company in the world in fact....

:laugh:

And here I always thought zee Zermans were always at the cutting edge of everything...well, to be fair, the German customers of our company were far more sophisticated than those in other countries....but the company IT was ...