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> Do you also audit / control web browsers the clients are using?

Certain places do, actually. That's why lots of enterprise software was stuck having to support IE just a few years back (and probably still in some places that haven't caught up).

I've seen demands towards certain features working on Edge/Chrome in particular even if it would break something in Firefox, which might be preference of the end users but also corporate policy towards using known software in certain places.

I'm sure that you're still likely to run into plenty of environments where something like Edge might be the only allowed browser.



>lots of enterprise software was stuck having to support IE just a few years back

Yep, and talking about Jira, they only ended that support in March 2020.

And wow, according to Wikipedia, Microsoft still supports Internet Explorer on some non-consumer Windows flavors. Today. I find that actually pretty stunning, must be a huge liability to be running web-apps that breaks on non-IE, because that can't then be the only aspect at which it's still stuck in the stone ages.


They will have a leg up there because the on machines this LTSC version of Windows is made for, you shouldn’t be browsing the web much in the first place - intended applications are ‘ medical systems (such as those used for MRI and CAT scans), industrial process controllers, and air traffic control devices’




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