IE no longer supported

If you have been using the internet for any length of time, you know that there once was a time when Internet Explorer was the standard for web page browsers.  IE had such a huge market share of the web browser market that every page on the web was built to be compatible with IE and if it worked with other browsers then that was good from them.

Firefox was the first modern day contender that actually started taking any kind of market share from IE.  (Don't leave me comments about Netscape or any of the other pre-IE browsers)  It's all about the commercial application and when Microsoft released IE as part of the operating system Windows 95+ in 1995 that was the real start of web acceptance by the general public and not just us techno-nerds.

Fast forward to 2011 and there are other (I would argue better) web browsers around.  The top of the heap being Firefox and Chrome, but IE just because it comes standard with Windows OS is still a force in the browser wars.  I can remember when FireFox added an IE compatible tab to insure their browser worked with everyone's web page.  Imagine my surprise today to get the following email:

Internet Explorer (IE) no longer supported

For now, we have discontinued support for ALL versions of the browser, Internet Explorer (IE).  IE has always given us fits when it came to compatibility issues.  It was time to rethink our position.  We have decided that the time it takes to make our code compatible with IE would be better spent adding and improving the core functionality of the Bee.  Adding new features that would help you, our customer, grow your business.  

If you are using IE today to access the Bee, please don't be alarmed.  Downloading a compatible browser is easy and straightforward.  Here's a list of three we recommend.  Just click on the link to go to the download page.  You'll be up and browsing in minutes!

Firefox
Google Chrome
Safari

Happy browsing!


Scott Miller
Founder/CEO
Scott@getthebee.com


The Bee is an online bookkeeping/accounting application and apparently they have been having problems getting their software to work correctly with IE.  Sorry this was news to me as I rarely use IE, so I have never had a problem with their site.


Some day we may look back to January 2011 and realize this was a tipping point for Microsoft and Internet Explorer.