World's first 'tax' on Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7

Customers who use IE7 will have to pay an extra surcharge on online purchases made through the firm's site.

Chief executive Ruslan Kogan told the BBC he wanted to recoup the time and costs involved in "rendering the website into a antique browser".

What an excellent idea !

good idea, why should buisiness' have to carry the burden of making their site work with what is after all, an outdated and insecure browser that's riddled with flaws? If you can get online to visit a website, then surely you can update your browser!

Will this only encourage Microsoft to start chargeing for bug fixing and correcting faults with their operating system software?

If i was their customer, i would just take my business elsewhere.

If a company can't make their website work with whatever browser i happen to be using, then i won't buy from them. They want my business, so they need to work for it.

As someone who is stuck on IE8 because of having an XP work machine, i'm amazed how many sites don't work properly. I've had to start using firefox now, and i still can't get rid of IE8, as firefox still doesn't have 100% compatibility. People around work have issues with various things on Chrome, Safari, there just doesn't seem to be one browser that does everything. I personally miss the days when IE had the lions share of the browser market, because stuff just worked. [ puts on flamesuit ]

IE 7 as a web browser is an antique and several generations out of date. Windows 8 will be released with IE 10 making IE 7 even more obsolete and insecure.

XP should have been junked ages ago, I know some employers still use it due to the contracts my employer has. We are completing more and more migrations for our customers with another one about to go from XP to 7.

Gov connect has brought this about due to the requirement to be running a current fully supported, patchable OS.

Who still uses IE7 anyway!?

Surely you would have updated to either IE8/9 or Firefox/Chrome?

Ah well. I think it's a good idea anyway.

It seems silly for businesses to cater for very outdated software that will surely only affect a very small number of people in comparison to those that have an up to date browser.

Phil

If a company can't make their website work with whatever browser i happen to be using, then i won't buy from them.

i still can't get rid of IE8, as firefox still doesn't have 100% compatibility.

Doesn't that contradict itself somewhat? Any site coded to W3C standards should work in Firefox (100%). So the ones that don't are because the developers are being lazy or only targeting proprietary IE features. By your logic you shouldn't be using/buying from any site that doesn't work 100% in every browser on the market. And, having made websites for the last 13 years, I'm pretty sure that's not many

Doesn't that contradict itself somewhat? Any site coded to W3C standards should work in Firefox (100%). So the ones that don't are because the developers are being lazy or only targeting proprietary IE features. By your logic you shouldn't be using/buying from any site that doesn't work 100% in every browser on the market. And, having made websites for the last 13 years, I'm pretty sure that's not many

My web browsing does seem to be reducing, as i keep getting annoyed with sites that don't work properly, on whatever browser i'm using at the time.

Who still uses IE7 anyway!?

Hello :wave:

Hello :wave:

How come?

At work we run I.e 8... Not too bad, until you realise that it's emulating version 6.0!

It''s completely beyond me why we have a new (ish) browser, pretending to be a stupidly old one...

Edited 18 June, 201214 yr by Brocko

Who still uses IE7 anyway!?

Surely you would have updated to either IE8/9 or Firefox/Chrome?

Lots of companies still have to use IE6 (never mind 7) because they have old legacy apps that are critical and either the company that made it doesn't exist any more or refuses to update.

You can get software now that can give a virtual IE6/7 on the desktop with 8+ for normal browsing but obviously that costs money.