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Comment Re:Still... (Score 1) 859

Not really. Even 10 year old LCDs had many many advantages over CRTs: - Thinner; smaller footprint - Lighter - Less power usage - Sharper at native res - More viewable area for same screen size (don't have CRT's 17" but 16.1" viewable rubbish) - No flicker And a small number of disadvantages that didn't take too long to overcome: - Price - Motion blur (if you're not a gamer you didn't care). In contrast, CFLs have a small number of advantages: - Power consumption - Longevity And a reasonable number of disadvatages: - Price - Toxic mercury - Quality of light (colour temp) - Slower warm up - Can't be used on timers Ultimately, LCDs were essentially a far better product except for price; CCFLs are not a better product (except for efficiency) also at a price disadvantage.

Comment Focus on the organisations - how about the NHS? (Score 1) 349

IE6 traffic drops quite a bit at weekends - showing that work machines have a higher percentage of IE6 than home ones. So convincing organisations to change will be the biggest win.
Biggest of them all? Well the UK NHS (National Health Service) is the biggest employer in the UK, and 3rd biggest in the world, after the Indian State Railway and the Chinese Army (who I doubt has the same amount of internet access!). It uses IE6.
Why? Because Connecting for Health, the multibillion pound IT project that's massively over budget and late, doesn't support IE7. Yes, on the Microsoft website it tells the NHS not to push out IE7.
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/nhs/content/articles/ie7-guidelines-for-all-nhs-organisations.aspx
IE7 didn't really break much, so to have very expensive and supposedly new apps still not working in IE7 seems crazy.
Until that is fixed the largest employer in the UK with millions of PCs will be stuck on IE6. And I wouldn't hold your breath for a fix considering this was identified back in Nov 06.

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