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Thread ID: 113151 2010-10-07 06:35:00 IE - Blergh pctek (84) PC World Chat
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1142397 2010-10-07 08:39:00 Our school has IE6 *screams in terror*. though some of the pc's have IE7, and if i'm lucky, a few of them have working firefox. goodiesguy (15316)
1142398 2010-10-07 08:40:00 Some of the computers in the computer lab at my school have Firefox set as default because of students not listening :D

Otherwise it's an almost-fully-functioning IE7.
pcuser42 (130)
1142399 2010-10-07 08:57:00 Some of the computers in the computer lab at my school have Firefox set as default because of students not listening :D

Otherwise it's an almost-fully-functioning IE7.

Oxymoron (dictionary.reference.com).

You can't mention IE (any version) in conjunction with the following words:

Safe
Usable
Customisable
Functional
Good-looking
Fast
Open standards
johcar (6283)
1142400 2010-10-07 09:02:00 At my school they used the inbuilt windows thing to limit IE7 so we couldnt use it for much, helpfully they had installed FireFox which wasnt affected by their draconian lockdown.

Just go to the advanced->network tab and change the proxy from balblablblah.blah.student.proxy to balblablblah.blah.staff.proxy and get 10MBs up and down
Fifthdawn (9467)
1142401 2010-10-07 09:03:00 Mix of IE8 on all the school PC's here.

Although they balance it out by making us do a print design assesment on Corel Draw and Corel Photo Paint 10. Also we use Alice for our programming! Only other assesment during the year is Excel - most of which a 5 year old could learn.

FYI - This is at level 3.
xyz823 (13649)
1142402 2010-10-07 09:19:00 Safe
Usable
Customisable
Functional
Good-looking
Fast
Open standards

Sounds like my perfect woman actually . . . . . :D
nofam (9009)
1142403 2010-10-07 09:21:00 :xmouth: ubergeek85 (131)
1142404 2010-10-07 09:22:00 It's interesting, where I work we're currently doing an ISMS audit, and we're asking ourselves "Do we remove browsers as part of the software clean-up?".

In the corporate world, you've gotta remember if there's 500 machines all updating once a month with a 15MB download, that's 7.5GB. What about machines that have more than one browser, such as Firefox and Opera. Suddenly you've doubled that again.

With IE, you can push patches centrally through a WSUS server. You *know* if there's vulnerabilities you're exposed to, where as it becomes more difficult to keep track of the vulnerabilities and exploits for half a dozen browsers, each with their own update schedule etc.

Then you've got to factor in the whole "Will Site X work with Browser Y?", and you can largely thank IE for that predicament ;)

Either way, I'd try for Firefox / Chrome Portable, but as Scouse said, I'd take a few months before telling them how to run the place, unless specifically employed to consult on that particular matter ;)
Chilling_Silence (9)
1142405 2010-10-07 09:23:00 Sounds like my perfect woman actually . . . . . :D

Just watch out for viruses . Wear Trojans . :D
johcar (6283)
1142406 2010-10-07 09:31:00 Just watch out for viruses . Wear Trojans . :D

Indeed - I usually put on several simultaneously!!

Take it from me though Johcar - don't use Norton's . . . . it dulls the pleasure to the point where you wonder why you don't just do it manually . :xmouth:
nofam (9009)
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