Why Do You Get Out Of Bed?
Written by admin on May 13, 2009
Against the reality of a superior product, Microsoft advocates are reduced to saying that Internet Explorer is “good enough”. Fancy features are not required for Web access, because most Web work just involves reading other people’s text.
The problem with this argument is that Internet Explorer itself has a hole in it. Because it is barely maintained, its “good enough” status is leaking out like air from an old tyre. The world around it is moving on; standards are more popular now, support for more desktops is becoming popular, new security problems and virusses are found with regularity. If a good enough tool is all that is required, then it should be a tool that values being good enough for the forseeable future. Internet Explorer is ceasing to be good enough, just like a lazy man who doesn’t exercise loses his fitness and his direction.
* Internet Explorer is on a negative value curve.
To stick with an aging tool out of apathy is hardly professional. When in the IT role, professional behaviour is to deliver tools best matched to today and to tomorrow, not just yesterday’s meat carved up some more. It’s the job of the IT role to maintain and increase the value of the computer user’s tools and infrastructure. You are not valuable sitting around on your hands letting everything coast. If you think that, you might as well be in bed at home. You are supposed to bring you talent and energy to bear and make decisions that will have a positive impact.
* Updating software is the positive contribution made by the IT role.
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