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Tell that to the corporate IT people who manage thousands of workstations and support internal intranets that were designed around those older browsers.


They can very well keep ie6 for cruftmaster97(tm) but they could provide chrome or firefox to browse the 2012 internet. I know some people call their browser "the internets" but it is in fact just a regular application that you can install as many of as you like. Kinda like if you said we can't use Latex for our yearly report even though you could create all diagrams and tables directly out of the database because we already have a publishing software installed. Word. Wait, that is exactly what IT would say.




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