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> Companies are still locked into some solutions like OWA and sharepoint because of which users still use IE at work.

My hunch is that a lot of companies are locked into legacy internal web applications that were optimized for IE6 and look like crap in a modern browser.

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Even worse is a handful of web apps we use at work are coded specifically for Firefox. Firefox 3.6. They don't work in IE, Chrome, or newer Firefox versions.

Then we have some other ones that only support IE 6 and 7. My laptop only has 1GB of RAM. Yeah...

1GB of RAM on a work computer? I'd flat out refuse to do anything until they fork out a whopping £30 to quadruple that.

Sorry, I've edited this post. The original felt like an off topic rant.

Long story short, we're moving to BYOD soon, and until then I'm using a backup laptop from years ago since I'm pretty low on the food chain here.

From experience, our organization use OWA (outlook web access). The only way we can change password for my email id is on OWA and that works only on IE!

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