Loading of Microsoft Applications on Ubuntu

[marc]

Preston Hagar said:

> On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 4:34 PM, marc <gmane at auxbuss.com> wrote:
>> I simply haven't fallen over this for more than a decade - I understand
>> your request, but I have to ask: Why?
>
> I work as an IT Guy/Programmer for a real estate company in Fort Worth,
> TX.  Two examples of sites where IE is required come to the top of my
> mind:

Thanks for the examples. It's a eye-opener that these things still exist 
after all these years.

> A third reasoning for needing IE would be web development.  I can't tell
> you how many times I have had a standards compliant webpage created that
> looks great in Firefox only to open it in IE and find the whole thing
> falls apart.  Since IE still has at least 70% market share (depending on
> the stats you look at, 89.6% on my companies website) any business site
> needs to look good in IE.  There are services on the web that will do it
> for you, but I think it is easier to just have an IE install available
> for myself.

Yup, I wasn't including testing. Clearly, we all have to test with 
Windows and IE; including IE6, sadly

> If I tried, I could probably think of more sites, but typically it is
> some either industry specific or internal site that was written a while
> back and isn't updated because the financial reasoning isn't there.  I
> just thought I would post since everytime I see the OPs question, I
> always see several responses of people saying that there shouldn't be
> any IE only sites anymore and that if they come across one, they should
> just switch providers/banks/websites/etc.  I just thought I would
> provide two quick examples, where switching isn't an option (high cost
> of changing phone systems, and the ability to list and sell homes in
> D/FW).

I understand the issue - I was involved with a good few migrations years 
ago - but as I said, I thought this was mostly history now.

I get the impression that this is a USA thing. But maybe I'm wrong.

> Also, just for reference, I have a Windows XP virtual box instance with
> IE install that I use to access the IE only sites I need and test web
> pages I develop in IE.

Yup, I do the same for testing.

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Best,
Marc