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(Unverified)Jan 2nd 2009 3:01PM
"With Internet Explorer numbers steadily on the decline and the fact that it keeps placing poorly in comparative testing, will it be able to maintain its hold on the enterprise?"
Yes. At an enterprise level, companies are too risk-averse to move away from IE. Their hired developers are largely ASP converts to dot-NET, and thus any real Javascript/Java/AJAX skill isn't in-house. No, I'm not talking about your exceptional company that uses LAMP and everyone contributes to the Linux kernel. I'm talking about AT&T, IBM, GE, and Merck, Schering-Plough, Ford, Nabisco, and state governments.
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(Unverified)Jan 2nd 2009 11:17PM
Not only that but it's the only browser that designed from the ground up for automation making it rather trivial to incorporate into a desktop/enterprise app.
ronin691Jan 3rd 2009 7:40AM
Risk adverse!?!??
IE is the biggest security risk there is! I think you mean:
"IT department managers don't want to use anything but IE so they can insure their artificial entrenchment, guarantee their job security. Without the constant maintenance required for Microsoft products, they'd be out of a job."