IE9 installed
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But have MS made a mistake in making it only run on Win7? There are still an awful lot of users out there still using XP, and they will switch to Firefox or Chrome in order to get the benefits of HTML5 if they can't get them otherwise.... MS could end up losing even more market share in the browser wars, no matter how good IE9 is... just a thought...
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Others can probably answer that better than me, but I suspect it's a) a question of branding - it's a kind of free advertising for the Microsoft name, and b) it's also a matter of being able to bundle it in to the OS when they sell that, and thus being able to command a slightly higher price for that.
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But have MS made a mistake in making it only run on Win7? There are still an awful lot of users out there still using XP, and they will switch to Firefox or Chrome in order to get the benefits of HTML5 if they can't get them otherwise.... MS could end up losing even more market share in the browser wars, no matter how good IE9 is... just a thought...
NeverHeardOfMe wrote:
But have MS made a mistake in making it only run on Win7?
Vista and Win7. IE9 uses Direct2D for rendering which has not been backported to XP (and won't be). As for XP, it was released in 2001 and as good as it was then, it is time to move on.
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5fingers wrote:
I use IE6 which is good
I just plain can't believe what I am reading. IE6 is one of the biggest POS ever, maybe in the Top10 of the worst pieces of software ever, along with Norton Anti-[Anything] and Lotus Notes.
Rage wrote:
I just plain can't believe what I am reading. IE6 is one of the biggest POS ever
It was the best browser around when it was released. It is unfair to compare poor old IE6 to Chrome and Safari which were released a decade later.
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Rage wrote:
I just plain can't believe what I am reading. IE6 is one of the biggest POS ever
It was the best browser around when it was released. It is unfair to compare poor old IE6 to Chrome and Safari which were released a decade later.
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NeverHeardOfMe wrote:
But have MS made a mistake in making it only run on Win7?
Vista and Win7. IE9 uses Direct2D for rendering which has not been backported to XP (and won't be). As for XP, it was released in 2001 and as good as it was then, it is time to move on.
Nemanja Trifunovic wrote:
As for XP, it was released in 2001 and as good as it was then, it is time to move on.
Absolutely, but tell that to the great unwashed.... blimey, I know people still using Win98, FFS.... :rolleyes: Mind you, such people wouldn't upgrade to IE9 anyway... But XP is still very popular, and a great deal of those users would need to buy a new computer in order to run Win7, and that is a great deterrent to a lot of people. Whatever the technical reasons why it won't run on XP, I do feel Microsoft may find that they will lose a lot of IE users to Firefox and Chrome because of it.
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Nemanja Trifunovic wrote:
As for XP, it was released in 2001 and as good as it was then, it is time to move on.
Absolutely, but tell that to the great unwashed.... blimey, I know people still using Win98, FFS.... :rolleyes: Mind you, such people wouldn't upgrade to IE9 anyway... But XP is still very popular, and a great deal of those users would need to buy a new computer in order to run Win7, and that is a great deterrent to a lot of people. Whatever the technical reasons why it won't run on XP, I do feel Microsoft may find that they will lose a lot of IE users to Firefox and Chrome because of it.
NeverHeardOfMe wrote:
Whatever the technical reasons why it won't run on XP, I do feel Microsoft may find that they will lose a lot of IE users to Firefox and Chrome because of it.
Don’t be so sure, a lot of these XP users are still using IE6 because they have used with it and because it works. If these “conservative” users want a new modern browser they have IE8 which is okay, has tabs/this is the “modern” part for most of the users including me/ and also works. Why they need to move to unintuitive and unfamiliar geek’s browser like Chrome?
The narrow specialist in the broad sense of the word is a complete idiot in the narrow sense of the word. Advertise here – minimum three posts per day are guaranteed.
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and looking good: definitely more responsive and slightly less screen clutter (which is configurable). Not found anything to moan about. Yet. Well done Microsloth. :thumbsup:
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NeverHeardOfMe wrote:
Whatever the technical reasons why it won't run on XP, I do feel Microsoft may find that they will lose a lot of IE users to Firefox and Chrome because of it.
Don’t be so sure, a lot of these XP users are still using IE6 because they have used with it and because it works. If these “conservative” users want a new modern browser they have IE8 which is okay, has tabs/this is the “modern” part for most of the users including me/ and also works. Why they need to move to unintuitive and unfamiliar geek’s browser like Chrome?
The narrow specialist in the broad sense of the word is a complete idiot in the narrow sense of the word. Advertise here – minimum three posts per day are guaranteed.
Because IE8 doesn't support HTML5, and new fancy graphics (canvas), which is the shiny new thing people will want to see.
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Question, since I haven't seen it mentioned either way in other reviews. Does IE9 still simulate a Geiger counter?
3x12=36 2x12=24 1x12=12 0x12=18
eh? Don't know about IE, but my mouse does.. clicks away like mad...
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eh? Don't know about IE, but my mouse does.. clicks away like mad...
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Because IE8 doesn't support HTML5, and new fancy graphics (canvas), which is the shiny new thing people will want to see.
How many years until HTML5 get a sufficient share from the internet? Hint: Silverlight.
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IE clicks anytime something on a page loads. On some intranet sites it sounds like I'm walking around inside a reactor.
3x12=36 2x12=24 1x12=12 0x12=18
Mine doesn't... may be a windows sound setting. I turn all sound effects off in Windows.