CiC

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18440979

LOL, WTF?!?!?!

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LOL ??????

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LOL is this serious

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LOL i'm glad i'm not a customer of that website

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LOLOLOLOLOL

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FFS :/

The worlds first tax for using a browser has appeared. If you are using internet explorer 7 to access and buy things from Kogan.com then you will be charged a tax equal to how long in months that ie7 has been out. This is because of the time and effort and therefore cost to their company, that it takes to make the website work properly on ie7. They don't expect anyone to pay the tax (eg they'll go elsewhere) but their true hope is that people will download and use a more up to date browser.

My "FFS" is aimed at the future meaning of this. It's not a serious tax... though they'll take your money if you insist on using it... but this is the kind of move that could effect online businesses in the future. This could be a really good thing, or a really bad thing for anyone who has ever shopped online.

it's the kind of idea that other companies will catch on to to reduce costs and increase money that they get. For example, if websites reduced the cost of their products, they could make everything seem cheaper, but then add a basic tax for browsers, and the tax amount could be different for the browser you use, lower for browsers that make shopping sites easier to use, higher for the other end of things. This is something that would be disguised as good news, as you'd just use the browser that gives the best discount... but browsers often update, which create new bugs in websites, which would increase the tax.

This could turn into something very stupid in the future, because all it takes is for one company to try out the stupid idea, and then other companies to follow suit. If it's done as i say, by reducing prices of goods then adding tax at checkout, all other companies would follow suit because which site would you use, one that advertises a new DVD for £10 or one that sells the exact same thing for £8... you'd go with the £8 one, see £2 tax at checkout and then think, meh might as well get this one after going through all that.

So
LOL now
FFS at future panic guessing and random theroies

congrats to Kogan.com though for coming up with this concept as it's pretty much been gloabally advertised and will get them in the news all over. Couldn't wish for better advertising.

trying to come up with methods of forcing my council to update from IE7 is tricky as government systems always look old cus they are!
We dont support pre 6.5 for payments and tbh IE7 development (and IE8 tbh is as bad and 9 not so brilliant) takes me hours of extra work for every hour i spend making something for FF or Chrome.
I may end up using a plug-in that is getting common where banners are replaced on detecting anything than the latest IE and telling them to get an up to date browser installed.

Well now the door is open...
10% tax on itunes for people with ie
slower search results for people without crome on google
and so on
fun times.
I would rather they just put a catch in the page where you load it with 7/pre 7 you get a big popup saying update bla bla if it looks shit your fault!

there should be some kind of browser that loads up all browsers into it and displays the page using the browser that works best for that page, like some kind of browser browser.

can't see the point in various browsers anyway. it's not as though they make money out of people using them, and then every time they update them to a new version, they totally redesign what it looks like and you have to mess around with it until you get it how you like it. Firefox seems to constantly try to copy internet explorer in terms of looks. All i want is a browser that looks like ie5 but has tabs, don't need all the other jazzed up crap and themes that they try to push on you.

Embarrassingly we still use IE6 or 7 at work. I've sort of deduced this from the fact a lot of web pages no longer load, including the BBC web pages. It's embarrassing for a bank who should put security at the fore front, but head office don't seem to acknowledge outwardly that it is a problem.

It'll be an even bigger problem soon anyway, iirc XP support ends in 2014 and then we're buggered

My company Saint-Gobain is in the process of upgrading to Windows 7 and Microsoft Office 2010 from xp and 2003. With over 200,000 employees imagine the cost! That's why your bank will keep using until they have no choice.

On the plus side I get a new laptop that doesn't take 3 days to boot up ^_^

Brucie wrote:My company Saint-Gobain is in the process of upgrading to Windows 7 and Microsoft Office 2010 from xp and 2003. With over 200,000 employees imagine the cost! That's why your bank will keep using until they have no choice.

On the plus side I get a new laptop that doesn't take 3 days to boot up ^_^

Geek

Oi! I was in Liverpool on Wed/Thursday aswell m8 and was thinking of you I don't have your number or I would have took you for a pint!

Ah, shoulda let me know m8, would have been good, I was off work aswell thursday and friday. Next time eh!