title: Force IE out of Compatibility Mode
body: <p>I've read the following MSDN page:</p>
  
  <p><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-en/library/cc817574.aspx" rel="noreferrer">http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-en/library/cc817574.aspx</a></p>
  
  <p>And quite a few questions on SO, but I'm not entirely convinced I have the answer I want.</p>
  
  <p>We are currently dealing with an issue where our client is upgrading all there computers from IE6 to IE8, but via group policy they force IE8 to run in compatibility mode. </p>
  
  <p>I assume this is done so legacy internal applications continue to work. This however breaks our website since we aren't supporting IE7 100%</p>
  
  <p>Is using the Meta tag:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge"&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Going to override their compatibility mode setting and force our site to use IE8, proving their group policy is not set to 8888?</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>8888: Pages are always displayed in IE8mode, regardless of the
    directive. (This bypasses the exceptions listed earlier.)</p>
  </blockquote>