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Is Microsoft using Internet Explorer 9 to force upgrades from XP? | |
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| Time: 09:18 EST/14:18 GMT | News Source: ZDNet | Posted By: Robert Stein | ||
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Is Microsoft using Internet Explorer 9 as a tool for force users to upgrade from Windows XP? Internet Explorer 9 will not be supported by Windows XP. Period. Microsoft’s web technical evangelist Giorgio Sardo, speaking at the Web 2.0 Expo, has confirmed this. The reason given is that HTML5 and hardware acceleration require a modern OS. | ||
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| #1 By 2960 (72.205.26.164) at 5/6/2010 10:27:28 AM |
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In the past? Sure. I'm sure they did.
Now days? Nah. Apparently 35% of the PC using population could care less about Internet Explorer, thus taking away more and more of any teeth it may have had in the past. This could make it even worse for MS. |
| #2 By 432 (209.167.107.58) at 5/6/2010 12:42:29 PM |
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I do not think, other than our silly geeky percentage of users, that any Windows user cares what version of Internet Explorer (or any web browser for that matter) they use.
If they did...and really saw the advantages of upgrading broswers...all web stats would reflect that everyone upgrades to the latest browers. I really can't imagine anyone making the choice to upgrade from XP to get the latest version of IE, when they can use Chrome, FireFox, Opera, etc. for free. just my 2 cents. |
| #3 By 9589 (66.83.26.2) at 5/6/2010 4:40:51 PM |
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Is Ziff-Davis not publishing PC Mag to force people to buy computers to view their offering?
The idiot that wrote this article wants to know so that next time he is on deadline and has to come up with an article equally inane he will already have an idea! Something he is woefully short on . . . |
| #4 By 228224 (74.59.86.16) at 5/6/2010 7:36:05 PM |
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I doubt that Microsoft is trying to get people to upgrade to Win7 just because IE9 won't be available. People with Win2000 didn't rush to WinXP or Win Vista [who would?] when they got stuck with IE6.
If anything, some will install IE8 [if not already] and stay there until Win XP dies in 2014 or until they go to Win7 [or Win8] or elsewhere. Others could switch browsers which will still support XP and the latest technologies [such as HTML 5, etc.]. So in the end, the potential IE9 users will decrease as Win XP users are still quite large and IE's market share will probably drop below 50% at one point. |
| #5 By 95132 (96.25.183.211) at 5/7/2010 12:16:23 AM |
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Development of Win8 likely already underway, and IE 9 will not be out for at least another 6+ months if not longer, XP at that time will be past the point of spending development and testing resources on not to mention I'm shore in some ways holding IE9 back. By the time it's released and starts being widely adopted XP I think will have fallen below the 50% market share level.
That said don't think there isn't at some level a component of sending yet another nudge toward XP users, though where they want to go with IE9 is I'm sure the overriding issue. Like many said there are few XP users who are going to care; most of them are either non-techs who don't care and don't know what version of IE they even use, or tech-heads using FF,Chrome,Opera or whatever whom I suspect will support XP though their current and near term development efforts (While likely dropping win2k) in an effort to pick up even more market share abandoned by MS. Actually if I'm another browser team I'd probably love this news. |
| #6 By 143 (216.205.223.146) at 5/7/2010 2:32:22 PM |
| The author Adrian Kingsley-Hughes has a serious look on his face so you know he's serious. |
| #7 By 7754 (206.169.247.2) at 5/8/2010 3:54:19 PM |
| The author should be clear--it's not just generic hardware acceleration. You could add video hardware acceleration and voila, you have hardware acceleration. IE9 is doing much more than only video hardware acceleration, and they're doing it via DirectX versions that aren't available for XP. If they wanted to bring IE9 to XP, they'd have to make an IE9 version specifically for XP with that tech stripped out and replaced. The people love a conspiracy, though, so let's go with that version instead. |
| #8 By 8556 (173.27.246.50) at 5/10/2010 12:43:11 PM |
| Dagnabit. I'm still waiting for IE 1 for DOS 4.1. This waiting is horrible! |
| #9 By 228224 (74.59.86.16) at 5/13/2010 5:57:42 PM |
| @knighthawktfc: "XP I think will have fallen below the 50% market share level" - That is still a huge amount of systems that Microsoft can't afford to possibly lose to other browsers. Look at Windows 2000 users. They have "suffered" because they couldn't even get IE7. So I'm sure to surf correctly they switched over to another browser. True, Win 2000 user population was small even a few years ago. But these same people who probably skipped XP and Vista and went to Windows 7 may have ignored IE8 and installed the same browser they had in Win 2000. So these users are "lost" to Microsoft. Now in a few years when the last of the Win XP users [stuck on IE8 when IE10 may be out] will probably do the same. |
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