Turning off IE8 Compatibility Mode, Good or Bad?

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Hopefully this question isn't as subjective as I think it may be.

I have an Intranet application which needs to work with IE8 as the enterprise is replacing IE6 as the standard browser.

Our testing team found that it did not work in IE8, little did they know that it actually did. Their browsers were set to run IE8 in compatibility mode for Intranet applications.

I found that if I set the meta tag for X-UA-Compatible to IE=EmulateIE8 that I could force the browser to render this application as IE8 and the application worked fine.

Are there any pitfalls that I don't know about for this solution? If so, is there a better solution?

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