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Originally Posted by pl001
IE has some issues, and being locked into it is the reason I'll probably never buy another RT product. But at least I can use the whole web with it. And to claim it is "abandoned" is ridiculous. For one, it's a free product. Yeah, so you have to update to a "new" OS that is over 4 years old to use the latest version. Like no other software would ever require you do that. 
Microsoft is far from perfect, but let's try keeping things in perspective here. |
It was specifically stated that the
old versions are abandoned. All the people who are using perfectly functional WinXP computers have no choice but to install a real browser. Because IE8 is not a real browser today...
Chrome and Firefox don't require you to 'update to a "new" OS that is over 4 years old to use the latest version', which is all that really matters in this case.
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Originally Posted by Sil_liS
And older versions of IE are still supported by Microsoft with the exception of IE versions 2.0-5.1 for Macintosh and IE 5.2 for for Mac OS X which have been supported for years after their release regardless of their success. |
What exactly do you mean by supported???
Support for old software is defined by the presence of updates, which for IE would be the IE 9, 10, and now 11
updates. How do you "support" an
old version, is this like supporting Firefox 3.0 or something? Oh yay, Microsoft still "supports" Internet Explorer 2.
Microsoft does not "support" IE8, they support
IE, and only on Win7&8.
The fact that they'd discriminate based on which
version of the OS you have is frankly, asinine. And it is no matter what company does it.