Wednesday, 26 October 2011

Volkswagen Still Recommends Internet Explorer 6


There are still good reasons why you would use Internet Explorer 6, as much as Microsoft will chastise you for that decision.
ZoomA recent discovery made by Geek.com shows that, for example, Volkswagen tells its supplier partners that the best way to use its website is, in fact, IE6.
Of course, the recommendation only applies to vwgroupsupply.com, not the general vw.com website. You could be making fun of VW and how it tells its partners to use a decade-old browser, while Microsoft spends millions of dollars in an effort to convince users that IE6 is risky to use and IE9, or, at the very least, IE8, is a much better choice.
However, with a more reasonable approach, we take the guess that the recommendation has to do with the fact that this website ties in with Volkswagen's internal information architecture, which may be standardized on IE6. Large corporations have standardized their software environment on one very specific browser version and a transition or re-qualification of another browser is a major pain in the neck and requires substantial investment. Until Volkswagen does not see a need to update all of its internal applications, including manufacturing software, there will be no change in the browser requirement.
Microsoft currently states that IE6 usage around the world is about 9 percent. More than half of the world's IE6 users are in China. According to data provided by Internet World Stats and Net Applications, the IE6 user base in the U.S. may be about 6.3 million users, which suggests that a good portion of IE6 users, may, in fact, be locked up in industrial applications.

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