World's first 'tax' on Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7

BBC News ^ | 14 June 2012 | Staff

[ShadowAce]

[cartan]

Hahaha—excellent!

[Vigilanteman]

Stupid marketing. A far better incentive would be to offer a free upgrade CD to any customers using IE7 and a small discount to those who don't.

Unless his website or offerings are extra special, his customers will just move to competitors rather than paying the surcharge.

[Lazamataz]

In response, I backtracked to Internet Explorer 5.

If he does not support my browser, I will sue.

[Oztrich Boy]

I’m OK. I’m using IE5

[ShadowAce]

Unless his website or offerings are extra special, his customers will just move to competitors rather than paying the surcharge.

Or--follow me closely here--they may just perform the free upgrade to a supported browser.

[illiac]

Nothing special on the website....and not a lot of products....

[ShadowAce]

If he does not support my browser, I will sue.

I'm suing you both for making the Internet a worse place than it was yesterday.

[Hodar]

Go for the Gold .... backtrack to Netscape!!

[BenLurkin]

Churchill’s prediction is coming true, that “the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science.”

[Lazamataz]

I jsut discovered Mosaic.

It predates Netscape.

I am so cool. I'm using it right now.

[The_Victor]

Or--follow me closely here--they may just perform the free upgrade to a supported browser.

In some cases the upgrade of Explorer isn't supported unless you upgrade Windows. For instance Windows XP users cannot upgrade to Explorer 9. At work, I'm stuck with Explorer 8 because my company hasn't upgraded past XP. Probably similar issues for people who haven't upgraded from older versions of Windows.

[ShadowAce]

Then upgrade to a supported browser like Firefox.

[bigbob]

Giving Microsoft ideas...NEXT:

The WinXP Tax

Upgrade, damn you peole!

[Lazamataz]

Churchill’s prediction is coming true, that “the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science.”

Churchill was talking about First Person Shooter games.

[youngidiot]

This is more of a stupidity than a “tax”. Many people simply won’t buy from this jackass, which I’m sure will lead him to increase “taxes” even further to cover the lost revenue. And on and on until he’s out of business. Idiot.

[Vigilanteman]

They may. But if they were tech savvy enough to do that, they probably wouldn't be using IE7 in the first place.

If the company was the Aussie equivalent of Amazon.Com, he could probably push people into doing exactly that.

But since he apparently is just one of a zillion websites out there, he probably won't.

Disclosure: My wife sells Avon. Most of the customers she has picked up are little old ladies who like the catalog, the product guidance which she gives by phone and will never order direct via their website. She runs circles around her younger competitors because she understands and offers this service. Plus, little old ladies have an amazing amount of disposable income compared to their younger counterparts. Their average order is around $60 compared to $16 for the younger set.

Just because someone isn't tech savvy doesn't mean they are stupid or don't have money to spend on your business.

[Cicero]

I began visiting the internet with the first beta version of Mosaic. I forget the number, but it was something less than one. Mosaic 0.97 Beta, or something like that.

Unfortunately, I seem to have misplaced the floppy disk on which I stored it, as well as my last floppy disk drive.