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Microsoft to drop support for older versions of Internet Explorer

whats unfortunate is that companies/developers dont move along in upgrading web apps quickly [im sure for a variety of legitimate as well as craptastic reasons] so a lot of places will be stuck on old versions of IE for some time.

im fortunate where i am, in that most everything works in IE11, or at least with compatibility mode. XP is almost gone at work and windows updates are pushed out monthly. a lot of places, however, cannot do that, or cannot move as fast as we can to get rid of old systems or roll out updates :-/
 
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That’s likely to affect a lot of people: Net Applications says IE 8 is the most popular single browser version worldwide, installed on more than 20 percent of all PCs running a desktop OS, including many that are still running Windows XP.
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Probably due to China running a huge amount of dodgy copies of XP.
 
xSauronx said:
whats unfortunate is that companies/developers dont move along in upgrading web apps quickly [im sure for a variety of legitimate as well as craptastic reasons like poor planning and lack of fiscal understanding and responsibility] so a lot of places will be stuck on old versions of IE for some time.

im fortunate where i am, in that most everything works in IE11, or at least with compatibility mode. XP is almost gone at work and windows updates are pushed out monthly. a lot of places, however, cannot do that, or cannot move as fast as we can to get rid of old systems or roll out updates :-/
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Fixed a part of that
 
I haven't heard anything about future versions but I have a feeling that IE12 will also come out for 7 since it will still be around for a long time, unless maybe it has dramatic architectural changes which require the win8 kernel.
 
Chiefcrowe said:
I haven't heard anything about future versions but I have a feeling that IE12 will also come out for 7 since it will still be around for a long time, unless maybe it has dramatic architectural changes which require the win8 kernel.
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Or "require" in quotes because frankly we're talking about a web browser, not a rocket ship. "Dramatic architectural changes" is the usual MS excuse for "we don't want to support an older OS or complicate its support any more than we absolutely have to". I can understand and sympathise with the underlying reasons well enough but I don't see the point in MS trying to dress it up the way they do.

Third party browsers show perfectly well that a modern browser which is at least as good as IE can run on XP without any problems.
 
Yep, I think it should be possible to have IE12 on win7 but they might decide to phase it out to try to get more people to upgrade...

Does anyone know when IE12 is supposed to come out anyway?
 
Wouldn't the release of IE12 on Windows 7 depend on the release schedule of Threshold? If Threshold releases prior to the end of mainstream support I think IE12 will be on 7. If it released after the end of mainstream support IE11 should be the last version on 7.
 
I tried IE11 for a couple of months but didn't like it's performance so running Firefox with Windows 7 and Windows XP lol 😉
 
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