Thursday, December 11, 2008

The woes of Microsoft Internet Explorer 6

For the past 15 minutes or so, I've been trying to embed a YouTube video into a blog entry, but this ruddy awful browser (Microsoft Internet Explorer 6) just keeps crashing!

I find myself wondering why iDivision (Our IT department here at work) didn't slipstream the latest stable release of Internet Explorer 7 into their recent rollout of a Windows XP SOE. If someone can think of a reason, please share it as I'm a little lost on this one :/



I DO have a portable version of Mozilla Firefox (an alternative to Internet Explorer) on my USB thumbdrive specifically for use on public terminals and I DO know of the proxy configuration here (go me!) but due to potential security hazards and software licensing issues, the use of non-approved software is forbidden. Ugh.

Now that I've had my whinge about it, I guess I'll just have to improvise and make do with IE...

1 comment:

Sleepydumpling said...

It sucks doesn't it? I have no idea why they went with IE6, particularly when IE7 is pretty established. There's government IT for ya!