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Ah Yes. IE6 woes. They run deep in hospitals and healthcare. We are beginning to see adoption of IE8 in the works as more and more Electronic Health Record Programs are launched nation wide. Healthcare is long known as being slow to move on issues like this. While IE8 may resolve a short-term problem, we’ll probably be talking bad about IE8 in 3 years when the industry is still locked into it while the world has moved on to IE12.
Rajesh Gollapudi July 23, 2010
I agree with you. It could be never ending problem. Simply put, enterprises(especially healthcare) don’t see a reason in upgrading their browser unless the need arises.
This could change in a couple of ways:
- When they migrate from Win XP to Windows 7 or Vista, which is happening at a decent pace.
- With automatic updates of browsers (currently available like Chrome) it could change. Hopefully this will be implemented in IE9.
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Andy Darnell
July 23, 2010
Ah Yes. IE6 woes. They run deep in hospitals and healthcare. We are beginning to see adoption of IE8 in the works as more and more Electronic Health Record Programs are launched nation wide. Healthcare is long known as being slow to move on issues like this. While IE8 may resolve a short-term problem, we’ll probably be talking bad about IE8 in 3 years when the industry is still locked into it while the world has moved on to IE12.
Rajesh Gollapudi
July 23, 2010
I agree with you. It could be never ending problem. Simply put, enterprises(especially healthcare) don’t see a reason in upgrading their browser unless the need arises.
This could change in a couple of ways:
- When they migrate from Win XP to Windows 7 or Vista, which is happening at a decent pace.
- With automatic updates of browsers (currently available like Chrome) it could change. Hopefully this will be implemented in IE9.