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Originally Posted by eschwartz
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.
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. |
By supporting old versions I meant that they offer tech support.
And I'm not clear on what you are talking about in the first part of the post in reply to pl001. Are you talking about an old computer running XP or a new computer running XP? Specs have changed a lot over the last decade.
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Originally Posted by Rizla
I'm probably take your post a bit out of context, but...
Knowledgeable users of window's various operating systems know not to use all the bundled software / tools, because, well, some of them suck.
Take for example the Search facility in Windows 7. The interface is fundamentally flawed. And MS has never bothered to fix it. Rather than deal with what is at heart a bad utility, I install a third-party tool. Windows is well supported by 3rd-party software.
And does anybody who knows what they're doing use IE? I don't mean to be condescending by that, but I personally have found it's so much easier to install Firefox or Chrome than deal with IE which kept crashing. MS are great and not fixing flaws but still they succeed. I guess part of the cause is simple product lock-in.
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What is wrong with the Search facility in Windows 7? I never had a problem with it.
The first thing that I do on a windows computer is install another browser. But I've used IE occasionally. I block some things in Firefox and instead of allowing them and blocking them again when I want to see something it is easier to open the webpage in IE.