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Why do most IT Managers insist on installing Internet Explorer?
Category: Computers > Software Asked by: geeteq-ga List Price: $10.00 |
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10 May 2006 10:07 PDT
Expires: 09 Jun 2006 10:07 PDT Question ID: 727316 |
Why do most IT managers insist on installing IE on corporate PCs and lock down such PCs so that no other browser software may be installed? With all the bugs and viruses and spyware that IE is vulnerable to, what business decision or advantage does IE provide over other browsers? Such as Firefox or Opera which are free and more secure and considering Microsoft provides almost no additional support for IE I'm looking for a serious answer as to what motivates such business decisions and not becuase "it managers are idiots" or somesuch. | |
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Re: Why do most IT Managers insist on installing Internet Explorer?
Answered By: sublime1-ga on 16 May 2006 23:23 PDT Rated: |
geeteq... As you wish... : ) Thanks for confirming my work as your answer. I'll repost it here for the sake of future readers. ------------------------------------------------------------ I can't say for sure, but I suspect it's simply because techs who are hired are proficient in the operating system, which includes IE, and that it's easier to update IE, from an admin stance, along with Windows Update (now Microsoft Update), whereas Firefox, Opera and other independents offer auto-updates which depend on users for initiation and completion. My experience is that IT departments want to be able to roll out updates from their end, independent of the potentially ill-fated involvement of relatively uninformed end users. --- Aside from user involvement with updates, which I mentioned earlier, the main reason I can think of is that many sites are still using web design which only looks right in IE, and is virtually unreadable in some other browsers. Take a look at this business home page, e.g., which came from another question I was reading yesterday: http://www.ultraguards.com/ While it looks okay in Opera and IE, in Mozilla or Firefox, the list on the right and other text is cut off at the bottom. I commonly use Mozilla for researching questions here, and run into this issue several times a day. And except on certain occasions, Opera is not free. --- And the comments made by others are certainly pertinent to the question - especially hammer-ga's remark about integrated web components in other programs. sublime1-ga |
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Re: Why do most IT Managers insist on installing Internet Explorer?
From: hammer-ga on 10 May 2006 15:09 PDT |
Also, there are a number of programs that will not run unless a particular version of IE is present because they use an integrated web component that needs to have IE on the system. QuickBooks Pro 2006 is an example of such a program. - Hammer |
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Re: Why do most IT Managers insist on installing Internet Explorer?
From: phil_m99-ga on 12 May 2006 11:35 PDT |
Extracting one product from the MS Office bundle and replacing it with another won't get past most beancounters - it's a financial uplift for no apparent bottom line benefit (even if the product replacement is superior and requires less support, etc, those are soft benefits to finance). As an IT manager/director of 15 years, every day has enough challenges that you don't go looking for trouble like "hey, let's roll out replacement for IE - that'll add to the corporate competitive edge and get us kudos from the user community". |
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Re: Why do most IT Managers insist on installing Internet Explorer?
From: geeteq-ga on 16 May 2006 11:27 PDT |
phil, tho this is probably not the right place for this discussion, I tend to disagree with you, you are right that there is an initial capital expense of integrating a different solution and a marginal operating expense of maintaining it, wouldn't the benefits justify it? (less viruses, crashes, security issues, etc). Then again I might be wrong... |
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