Reply to post: Re: boggles the mind

Defaulting to legacy Internet Explorer just to keep that one, weird app working? Knock it off

JohnFen

Re: boggles the mind

"why do companies still cling to it?"

For the same reason that lots of companies run emulators for antique mainframe systems that stopped being menufactured or supported decades ago: it's cheaper and safer to do that than to have to rewrite a crapton of working code.

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