Internet Explorer 9 Will Never Be on Windows XP

[Guest]

Lol

This is great. Actually a very good thing.
IE = not a very good product. (However I will give a 90% guess that after another year of looking at the amount of people not converting to WinBloat. they will release an XP version).
Replacing all your computer hardware to use windows 7. That is not practical for businesses.
Firefox, Google and Opera will Rule even more with this Stupid business decision by Microsoft.
MS have obviously never did learn, Apple will take more chunks of the business pie.

 

[gogogadgetliver]

[citation][nom]insightdriver[/nom]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]

LOL Get over it. This is so typical of Microsoft bashers. Come up with something new instead of rehashing old netscape/lotus bitches. And come out of the closet already and start using the dollar sign. We know you want to spell it Micro$oft but you're afraid you'll be viewed as a 12 year old. Well guess what...too late.

 

[SteelCity1981]

I don't see what the big deal is. I mean if they drop IE9 support for XP then whatever. It's not like that it's the only browser out there. Firefox, Chrome, Opera etc.. will still be supporting XP for prob years to come that are either equal if not better then IE is anyhow. I haven't used IE for years so it makes no diff to me.

 

[Graham_71]

[citation][nom]Doommaker[/nom]This is news? That OS is nearly a decade old. Time to move on. I can see why it's used in the corporate world, but there's no reason for the average person to still be on XP. You shouldn't have the same PC for 10 years. It's going to be slow as dog shit.[/citation]
No, not time to move on. Im fed-up with today's throw-away society, just because something is old does not mean it is obsolete. My tools are 20 years old now, im not going to replace a screwdriver just because someone has designed one with a better more ergonomic handle or throw out a torque wrench to replace it with a shiny diamond encrusted new one.

[citation][nom]rhelme[/nom]XP is old, it was never meant to run on most of today's hardware... [/citation]
Maybe, but most of today's hardware is designed to run XP. I don't know what the statistics are, but while XP still has a large user base (probably millions) hardware manufactures & game developers will continue support it.

My PC spec, XP 32 bit, Athlon7750 black, Radeon HD5750 1GB & 4GB system ram will play NFS Shift at 1920x1200 with 8xAA, 60 fps limited my monitor, does drop to 35-40 fps when colliding with other car's, most likely the duel core 2.7ghz cpu is the bottleneck there, not slow as dog shit!, not a reason to throw out XP / shell out for Windows 7.
I would like a reason to upgrade. I'd love it if there were a new game for the PC that was so jaw droppingly good that I'd think "WOW.... I'v gotta get this.... NOW" if it needed Windows7, 64bit, 12Gb ram, I'd buy it, but ....there is nothing.

It's not people like me refusing to upgrade their OS that's holding back technological advancement, its games consoles holding PC games back due to there DX9 limitation, although XP being limited to DX9 doesn't help here either.

I don't mind if IE9 or DX10,11,12.. will never be on XP, if Microsoft wish to phase it out fine, they need renewed business just like hardware manufactures etc. However IMHO they should continue supporting XP users with security updates all the while there is significant demand to do so, these people have all paid for it (you have to assume)

I know Windows 7 is very good, so is XP. So the "people should upgrade because XP is old" statment is just "throw-away society" mentality.

 

[Guest]

I switched to Firefox a few years ago and never looked back. I run it on my XP desktop and WIN7 laptop. So...the fact that IE9 won't run on XP doesn't sway me to try it or upgrade my perfectly-running (but non WIN7 upgradeable) desktop.

 

[deo domuique gr]

Mozilla Corp Could be very happy if had the choice to support only Vista and later. But hasn't that option. Isn't so big as MS.

In an absolute world if we all were using Win 7, we all could benefit. Anyway, the good thing here is that MS decided to move on and stop spending resources for Dinosaurs.

 

[deo domuique gr]

Mozilla Corp Could be very happy if had the choice to support only Vista and later. But hasn't that option. Isn't so big as MS.

In an absolute world if we all were using Win 7, we all could benefit. Anyway, the good thing here is that MS decided to move on and stop spending resources for Dinosaurs.

 

[Guest]

Funny to see that most of the posts here are obviously from home users with a very narrow "upgrading one machine isn't so costly" notion...

The economy is stuttering... As a business, what would you choose? Keeping XP and paying your employees, or making the ridiculous expenditure to replace hundreds of machines so that they can run Win7/IE9? Really. No perspective whatsoever about corporate needs...