Internet Explorer 9 Will Never Be on Windows XP

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[citation][nom]marsax73[/nom]Even if you don't use IE, people really need to move on. XP is old. I know people don't like change but 10 years? Win 7 is not Vista. Vista was a resource hog and they fixed alot of the issues in Win 7. 10 years in PC talk is a lifetime. Just make sure you have a half decent cpu and 4 gigs of memory. Done. Even with XP, a dual core processor is mandatory these days. An OEM copy of Win 7 runs about $100 so it's not like they are charging some outrageous amount.[/citation]


Agree completely. When companies have to support ancient operating systems like XP, it makes costs go up for their products which impacts me. I can't wait for XP to be just a memory.
 
[citation][nom]darkchazz[/nom]Windows 7 runs as good as XP and has more features, why are people still using a very old OS ?[/citation]

Windows XP does every thing I need it to, so why should I shell out for Windows7 just to continue using the apps im already familiar with on a new OS. The GPU accelerated graphics in IE9 does look very impressive, but novelty will wear off quickly and then you've got an extra way that advertisers will be-able bombard you with there rubbish.
 
[citation][nom]arcaneradio[/nom]That's OK Internet Exploder 9 will never be on my Mac either[/citation]

Ohh, you own a Mac! Thanks for letting us know. Anyway, back to real life where tech doesn't define anything.
 
[citation][nom]willgart[/nom]generally you have to test something before saying "its worst than something else"[/citation]
With IE9 you won't have to, especially if you're running xp 😉
 
it's good that IE9 won't be available for winXP. XP is 9 years old - it's a dinosaur in tech years. msft has released 2 new OSes since XP, and the newest one is already a year old (even older if you count beta testing). it's time to move on.
 
"That's one less operating system IE runs on.
Opera - Linux, Xp, vista, 7, OSX, FreeBSD, Solaris (and various phones, Wii)"

Apple's software for PCs is HORRIBLE. Any PC user of iTunes can confirm that. Ever used Opera on Windows? Slow, slow, slow. Christ Quicktime doesn't even utilize your GFx card - at all. There has always been conspiracy murmurs (push people towards Macs, make software run crappy on PCs) which I don't buy: using their own libraries and dlls on top of Windows libraries that do the same (and better), leaves the end user with a bad experience.
 
IE9 is what should have already come with Windows 7. I think most was surprised that IE8 didn't really get much of a make over for Windows 7. Really its just Microsoft playing Catch up. But they also have to make sure they put themselves a head. Mostly because Microsoft doesn't update there Browsers as often as everybody else does. Chrome is how old and its on Version 6?

Also, the key with future is useing your GPU for the web. Most XP machines (and work machines) have basic integrated graphics. Even most of the computers we run on should probably be in a museum.

The problem I have is the future is moving to HTML5 and using Direct2d in the browser. To many work computers are going to be behind.
We do remember that support for XP SP3 ends in 2014! (XP SP2 support ends this year) Everybody better be ready!
 
Personally, stay away from any Apple software on a pc and anything Google. Opps, too late, they're both on nearly ever damn pc out there.

Damned if you do, damned if you don't. Heck, MS STILL GET'S stick due to people and companies stuck on ie6/ie7 and yet when they take steps to push things along, "Ohh, MS is really bad, let's move to Apple or Linux etc" ... Please, stop it.

P.s. Don't really see anything wrong with opera?
 
[citation][nom]JimmyHat[/nom]well, I guess it's time to upgrade this old windows XP computer of mine. I think the new 27" iMac looks pretty good. I'm getting it[/citation]

Well done Jimmyhatm you've just explained to all of us how much money you have to burn. Enjoy your slow hardware while the rest of us move forward.
 
When has a new version of IE ever persuaded anybody to do anything... They keep revising it, and their market share keeps falling.

An aside to XP adherents: Nobody cares if you continue to use a decade-old OS. It's when you expect to have support ad infinitum and through that hold back technological advancement in general that you piss people off. This is just the beginning of this kind of stuff, so if I were you I'd get used to it.
 
I must say, the hardware acceleration in IE 9 is a good step forward, regardless of who likes what browser it seems all of them are getting this feature working soon. I did test drive the IE 9 beta vs. Firefox 4 Beta 6 and in every test (on Microsoft's 'Test Drive IE' site) IE9 is way faster; Microsoft has stated IE 9 has the advantage due to tighter/better OS integration, but I can't help but feel like some part of either the site or the browser is tweaked just to put IE way ahead.

On the 'Speed reading' test IE 9 finished in 7 seconds, reportedly running 60 FPS. FF4 beta 6 took 417 seconds to finish, running at 47 FPS. Now, maybe IE was running greater than 60 FPS and just defaulted the counter to 60, but I don't know about those results.

@ snipdupper: Opera isn't made by Apple, might you be thinking of Safari?
 
[citation][nom]jojesa[/nom]Never say never...if there is a mean there is always a way.Just way till hackers start playing with IE9[/citation]


Hackers aren't going to be trying to put IE9 on XP. If it isn't going to be on a large portion of machines they aren't going to waste their time putting it there.

 
P.s. WHy are you on XP? Why didn't you stay on windows 2000? Or even Win 98SE? You know, there's no need to move from them as they have all the software you need....

Same with memory, stick with 512Mb and forget 2Gb. Heck, stay with that 5400rpm 40Gb drive and still listen to all your media created with RealMedia.

 
I don't care who here uses XP, its the users that complain that they are getting left behind that don't see new features that really bug me. If you look at Linux's upgrades and Mac OS's upgrades, they frequently break compatibility and tell you "Oh well, if you want it, upgrade". For some reason if Microsoft does this, everyone crys.

This would be like me saying my original XBOX still works and I expect HALO:Reach to work on it just fine, after all, all the original XBOX games run at full speed on the 360, so how come HALO:Reach can't run on my original XBOX.

XP is 10 years old, Microsoft is the only company that support legacy OS's as long as they do.... Other companies force you to move on and up and its time. Does XP support TRIM on your SSD? NO, does it support DX10 and beyond?? NO, does XP 64 have drivers for most hardware... actually NO it still doesn't. XP is old and of course that means that it is SIMPLER so you can expect it to run faster on todays hardware...

Windows 7 offers so many more features and is so much more tied to the hardware and can offer so much more. I love the person who says the old start bar is gone in Windows 7... thats not quite true... turn off themes and guess what comes back... your Start Bar... even says start.

XP is done... It supports 4 gigs of memory... thats system memory AND video memory both...

Go ahead and complain that XP does what you need it to do, and use it, but don't complain when it can't do something you want it to do...thats my issue. I don't care if you prefer to use XP, but don't come screaming into forums all over tech sites bitching about how XP isn't running your software that you just bought. XP was never meant to work with today's hardware... some companies have done they best they can to hack it to make it work, but there are limits... Those that claim to get hardware GPU support in browsers in XP other than IE are full of crap because that functionality was not added to DX until 10... so you are seeing something else speed up your renderings slightly...

The way you all speak about how MS should be supporting XP, I'm surprised that no one here is saying that they need to be updating DOS to support 64 bit environments and such....

Face it... you want to run any of the latest games, access more than 3 gigs of memory, access all of your video card memory, its time to move on, XP served it purpose and after it was fixed and those of you who refused to move from Win2000 and Win98 finally did you eventually grew to like XP. I don't hear anyone crying about IE9 on Win2000 or Win98.... I don't hear anyone talking about DX9 on Win2000 or Win98... why, because you had to buy WinXP or upgrade to a new machine that came with it.

Time to learn a new OS.... and if you like XP it has a decent XP mode to run your beloved XP apps in. But your logic for sticking with XP is flawed... when an OS is smaller than a new one, it will run faster, but offer less features than the new one.... using your logic, as I have said before, you would be asking Microsoft to make HALO REACH run on the Original XBox because that system was good enough for you...

Most of the people who use XP and compare it to Win7 and prefer XP really haven't used 7 or if they have only used it for a day or two.... My 60 year old parents did the same bitching you did when moving from XP to Win 7... the same arguments... but 6 months later, they buy a netbook with XP on it and what do I hear... how XP can't hold a candle to Win 7... from 60 year old computer illiterate people... They figure stuff out in Win 7 that they could never figure out in XP, such as networking and other stuff...

XP is dead... Some apps will never run in 7 due to companies going out of business or whatever but thats what XP mode is for... thats what Virtual PC is for... move on.... before you know it... Win7 is easier to use... offers more features, uses more memory, uses SSD to the full potential, and has better power support. XP is old, it was never meant to run on most of today's hardware... thats the way it works...

Should I complain about how my old CRT TV should give me full 1080p resolution??? You may laugh, but there were some HD CRT's made... so that means that all CRT's from the 50's on should support it right?? So someone needs to hack the internals to make it work.... Thats how you all sound to me...

Spend the damn money to upgrade... some how you ended up with XP and accepted that... now pony up and face the facts... windows 7 is here to stay and has been accepted unlike Vista who earned the well deserved wrath from the XP crowd...

But quit crying or saying that it should be supported.... its old, and time to be replaced... just like a car, eventually it becomes outdated, doesn't meet new standards and becomes time to upgrade to something newer that supports today's fuel and safety... or should Chevy support their cars forever...
 
It's unfortunate that no one on this site should be using IE.
If its faster than everything else and has the same features...then maybe.
 
[citation][nom]hellwig[/nom]I run Windows 7 at home, but have no need to upgrade IE as I never use. Don't care how much better it is than IE8, it won't be better than Opera.[/citation]
To each his own. However, if you aren't going to completely remove IE, you should probably update it once in a while.
 
This isn't at all surprising. XP doesn't support the newer features needed for IE9 so it's not available. It's actually a nice change for Mircrosft in not supporting necro-tech.
 
XP users really need to stop being such whiny a**holes and either upgrade to Windows 7, or stick with IE8. I'm tired of hearing about how Microsoft has the AUDACITY to make you spend money on new hardware and software every time they try this (the frequency of which PALES in comparison to Apple). You're using a 9 year old operating system and Microsoft is in this manner, gradually ramping down support for you. Get over it. You're lucky you're getting patches until 2015.
 
ahh, why are there people finding reasons to agree with Microsoft? Microsoft, remember, made a code in Windows 3.1 so it would recognize Dr.Dos and give a scary error. Remember Microsoft made a new version of Word and broke compatibility with all documents created with the previous version (which created such a squawk that Microsoft made a patch to fix it). Remember Microsoft insisted the browser was inextricably tied into the operating system, but it was proven in court, that is false, and in the EU Microsoft is forced to provide a version of the OS without IE in it. So Microsoft makes a new version of IE and breaks backward compatibility with Windows XP and you think they HAD to?
 
[citation][nom]The_Prophecy[/nom]XP users really need to stop being such whiny a**holes and either upgrade to Windows 7, or stick with IE8. I'm tired of hearing about how Microsoft has the AUDACITY to make you spend money on new hardware and software every time they try this (the frequency of which PALES in comparison to Apple). You're using a 9 year old operating system and Microsoft is in this manner, gradually ramping down support for you. Get over it. You're lucky you're getting patches until 2015.[/citation]

And Windows vista/7 users NEED to quit being such dicks about upgradeing
 
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