What browser wars? The enterprise still loves IE 6 — “This news may come as a shocker to the tech-savvy folks in the house, but 60 percent of companies use Internet Explorer 6 as their default browser, according to Forrester Research. Meanwhile, your IT department spends a decent amount of time erecting barriers to prevent browser upgrades. Bottom line: companies need a browser policy, or they will risk productivity losses.”

When I worked at Stars and Stripes, most computers still had IE 6 on them. Why? I can’t say (and Stripes was the norm, not the exception).

IE 6 is extremely insecure (and Stripes had official DoD computers), it’s very slow at rendering pages, it doesn’t support modern features like tabs, etc, etc. IE 6 makes workers less productive, and it comprises security. I could not be an efficient editor of BeatBlogging.Org (possibly not even editor) if I ran IE 6. No way.

I need a modern browser that supports current Web apps. The kinds of innovative Web apps that make employees more productive.

Even if enterprises lag behind in browser upgrades, leading consumer-facing Web sites take advantage of browser capabilities that enhance rendering speed, better support rich Internet applications (RIAs), and offer new privacy and security capabilities. From an information worker perspective, these benefits are only part of the picture.

Features like tabs, add-ons, quick copying, improved search and navigation, and better post-crash recovery provide tangible productivity benefits for most information workers. Address bars that double as search save time, and available add-ons feature a wide range of functionality such as better remembering of passwords and saving pages to view later without creating permanent bookmarks.

Twitter’s integrated search now live for all users — We reported on this awhile ago, but it’s finally live for all users (MsBeat was livid when she wasn’t one of the lucky users who got to test drive the new site early).

The new Twitter user interface is a big improvement over the old one because Twitter finally integrated Twitter.com with search.twitter.com. The new search.twitter.com integration is a huge bonus for journalists, and the ability to save searches is big too. Twitter.com just got a lot better.

How Facebook Serves Up Its 15 Billion Photos — Just a little food for thought:

The latest numbers the company has shared with us include 15 billion photos uploaded in total, an average of 220 million new pictures posted each week, and at its busiest, 550,000 images being loaded each second.

People really, really like photos. Somehow news organizations lost sight of this.