Internet Explorer 9 Will Never Work on XP
It's a modern browser for modern systems.
Tuesday Internet Explorer general manager Dean Hachamovitch introduced Internet Explorer 9 to MIX10 attendees. The reveal showed that the new browser is slated to support HTML5, hardware-accelerated graphics and text, and will also use a new JavaScript engine. Microsoft even made available a downloadable "platform preview," mainly designed for developers but was also open for general viewing.
However Tuesday we discovered that the IE9 platform preview wouldn't install on Windows platforms older than Vista SP2. The demo itself wasn't really usable as a browser: it lacked a full user interface. But despite its limitations, it was assumed that the lack of pre-Vista SP2 support was only applied to the current download.
That's not the case. In fact, Microsoft has now made it perfectly clear that Internet Explorer 9 will not work on Windows XP now or in the future. "Building a modern browser requires a modern operating system," Hachamovitch said during a press conference at the event.
For users of the older OS, Internet Explorer 8 might be the last new browser from Microsoft.
In related news, CNET reports that Hachamovitch also briefly talked about codecs Microsoft will support in Internet Explorer 9, however Hachamovitch would only "commit to H.264."
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I know something that DOES work on windows XP: FIREFOX!!!
Looks like Micro$haft is favouring the stick over the carrot, in forcing users on their latest and greatest version of Windows. Mind you, it was only a matter of time before they made Windows XP the "neglected, chained to the basement red-headed step child."
So... we stay with Firefox/Chrome, yes?
Truly though this seems more like a nice excuse for Microsoft to start getting rid of Windows XP.
Good. It's about time that people stopped using XP.
I still can't believe computers still run that OS. It's 10 years old!
Fine with me, I'll continue to use any web browser that isn't IE just so I don't have to be forced to upgrade.
It may have to do with how IE9 is offloading the actual rendering to the GPU? I know that's possible with XP but maybe not the way they're trying to implement it? Excuse to leave XP or no, I'm enjoying Windows 7 and can't wait to check this out when it's actually in Beta.
I'm confused, why is this a big deal? Can't we let our beloved legacy rest in peace? Fond memories may abound, but the only XP I use anymore is a hacked up mutant abomination XP-on-a-stick for booting new builds to make sure they work before sending them out.
Internet Explorer 9 Will Never Work on XP,
i really really really DON'T CARE!!!
Of course they're trying to make people stop using XP. XP support is only costing them money at this point, those deveopers could be located elsewhere, doing something that actually makes sense, rather than providing support code for an outdated OS.
Users on really old machines running XP are hurting the entire computing industry.
I think haftarun8 is correct in that IE9 needs the new rendering feature in Vista SP2 and higher. The IE9 Platform Preview's demos are interesting. (And SVG-oids is even addictive!)
Good. It's about time that people stopped using XP.I still can't believe computers still run that OS. It's 10 years old!
Many non-tech related businesses, including where I work, still use XP as there is simply no reason to upgrade. It never made any sense (financially and technologically, both on software side and the hardware side) to upgrade to Vista, and to upgrade to Windows 7 would be expensive, and it is still somewhat premature to adopt a fairly new OS. Most businesses do not adopt a new OS until after the first SP.
More info and screenshots here:
http://www.tomsguide.com/us/pictur [...] HTML5.html
the only issue with xp is the ability to install programs without permission. just because it is 10 years old doesn't mean that it is bad or anything... there are some people in this world who don't actually replace everything they own the moment something new is out, or even until their older thing stops working. xp is still a great OS.
GOOD
i've converted my parents and their XP machines over to chrome. never looked back
this won't change anything. they wont upgrade OS till they upgrade their hardware
Good. It's about time that people stopped using XP.I still can't believe computers still run that OS. It's 10 years old!
That must give comfort to the Netbook users who were conned into buying Machines with XP installed three months ago. Way to go Microsoft. Buy a Microsoft Netbook get a brick, or I suppose they could always cough up the extra for Windows7. Rip off or what?
Good. It's about time that people stopped using XP.I still can't believe computers still run that OS. It's 10 years old!
Um no. Things work in XP... and there is no need to upgrade.
Opera 10.50 will run on Windows 2000 (Also Win98 - with some modification). Other browsers will run too. So who cares?
I think this decision will make IE more isolated.
I love xp. At some point xp must go.
i DON'T USE IE SO I AM GOOD.
This is more or less a 'corporations' need to move to windows 7 for IE 9.
Meh, Xp is just another old OS, MS should cut all support and bury it. I always felt that XP is just a bloated version of Windows 2000.
Meh, Xp is just another old OS, MS should cut all support and bury it. I always felt that XP is just a bloated version of Windows 2000.
True... So True
This is more or less a 'corporations' need to move to windows 7 for IE 9.
Hows that?
I work for a fortune 500 company and we are happy enough with IE6/Firefox 3.6 running in XP SP3, there is no plan to upgrade any time soon.
The TCO of a P4 is low enough if you use it for 10 years.
So upgrade to Windows 7! It's an OS that doesn't suck...unlike Vista. Plus, it looks a lot nicer and is more user-friendly. To everyone else...stop being so afraid of change! Change is good!
So upgrade to Windows 7! It's an OS that doesn't suck...unlike Vista. Plus, it looks a lot nicer and is more user-friendly. To everyone else...stop being so afraid of change! Change is good!
Some of us don't like the user friendliness that i call Dummifying. Some of us are happy on our GUIs that don't really want to be forced to change. If MS wouldn't change everything every release. maybe we'd have incentive to upgrade. Namely myself, one thing i like about OSX is that it doesn't change much in terms of usability when you upgrade. things aren't moved around.
but however i don't like OSX much so I won't be changing to OSX. i'll stick with XP. I'll go to Vista before i go to windows 7 anyday.
I had XP on a very nice machine..filled to the rafter with all the recommended updates. It was also dual-core.
On this machine I installed IE - it was the slowest, ugliest web-browser I have ever used in my entire life. I took it off..several other friends did the same, for the same reasons.
Come up with something better - with what you already have, instead of trying to sell junk. It might have worked for things like IE 8.0 and Vista, but so many people getting so pissed off with these new releases, I just wonder how long you can keep doing this stuff.
When I get my new CPU and M/B I am going to install Google Chrome. Make me think otherwise, Microsoft.
The reason companies don't want to upgrade from Xp is, 1. Their users want hardware upgrades and that costs them $$$, 2. Computers at work are for work, not watching you tube all day, why make it easier... :-)3. If they let you go, that is your salary as their bonus.
What's all the fuss about? MS had dropped support for all the other old versions. It is just more of the same old stuff.
Could you please rack off you M$hat FUDBoys. People who come to THG are tech savvy and not likely FUDed into buying Windows 7. Besides it's only a couple of years old if you have service pack 3.
Until Miscrosoft come out with a streamlined version of Windows designed for gamers you won't get another penny out of me.
Windows 95 was a good OS, I bought it. Windows XP was a good OS I bought it twice. Windows 7 looks like it was written by noob programmers, get lost.
i'll stick with XP. I'll go to Vista before i go to windows 7 anyday.
ummm yeah go from outdated windows xp to a crappier os then xp...thats progress for you. all you dumbasses that are sticking with xp and making comments like youll move to vista next really are stupid. i guess vista was made as a step up for stupidity, and youll upgrade to a good o/s , namely windows 7 at the end of its lifecycle