You can narrow down what apps conflict with Classic Shell and not deploy Classic Shell to machines that must run those apps. Then you can report the problem to Classic Shell's maintainer and to the developer of the conflicting app. Or you can try Start8 instead; though it costs per machine, you can amortize that over how much time and trouble it saves the users.

There's a chance of finger-pointing whenever more than one program is installed on a computer. IT's job is to find combinations that result in finger-pointing and work around them.

Download the EXE to your Android device and copy it over with MTP. Or download the EXE to a USB stick with someone else's Mac or Windows PC that already has Firefox. Or download the EXE to a USB stick with someone else's GNU/Linux desktop PC; most of those ship with Firefox. But in practice, using IE only to 1. download Firefox and 2. test your web site in IE should be enough.

So with support for IE 6 ending in 15 months, why doesn't the government just decide that ActiveX with homegrown crypto is old and busted and TLS with homegrown crypto is the new hotness?

The summary states that the app store (usually Google Play Store) is one of the four things that a carrier is allowed to prevent deleting.

Might "except once" have been a game?

That and games.

And the user would do that by using the linker of a generally available compiler toolchain to combine the .o files of the "work that uses the Library" with the .o files created by compiling the modified Library to form an executable.

I run Xubuntu (GNU/Linux) on a laptop with 1 GB of RAM and Android 4.4 on a tablet with 1 GB of RAM. I too have noticed that web browsers for Android tend to cache less than web browsers for GNU/Linux. Perhaps this is because the built-in NAND flash memory is much smaller than a PC hard drive and limited in erase cycles. A 1 GB cache is a lot more noticeable on an 8 GB phone or tablet than on even a 160 GB netbook.

The fact that a lot of publishers of Android applications refuse to make their .apk files available from their own web sites, instead requiring users to obtain them through Google Play or Amazon Appstore.

CD, SD, USB, and FTP still work to get a competing web browser's installer onto a PC.

On a nonrooted device, you can "Uninstall updates" and then "Disable" for many of those applications.

Dice Holdings, parent of Slashdot Media, is a U.S. company, for one thing.

"Go to the app store and type in dialer." Or "Go to the app store and tap downloaded apps, dialer, reinstall." Problem solved.

You could always get a different area, as sglewis100, Anonymous Coward, and another Anonymous Coward recommend.

Let me rephrase: Then how come they HAVE to run IE 6 in order to do e-gov and e-banking related stuff?