I'll have what they're drinking
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Rama Krishna Vavilala wrote:
It all makes perfect business sense, why care about building a software for a soon to be out dated OS using LCD technologies when yo can clean up and rewrite using better technology and produce better software.
And not support 68% of the market? Where is the "business sense" in that? In my not so humble opinion, Microsoft is just doing one more little thing to help nudge XP users towards 7. Which is fine, I just wish they would admit it.
So you think people will upgrade from xp to windows 7 because it has a new shiny browser that supports HTML 5? Most users will not care about it as there are alternatives. So atleast that's not the motivation. However, building a browser that works better than the competition is a valid motivation. One way to do that was to build a faster rendering engine and d2d is the technology that allows that.
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So you think people will upgrade from xp to windows 7 because it has a new shiny browser that supports HTML 5? Most users will not care about it as there are alternatives. So atleast that's not the motivation. However, building a browser that works better than the competition is a valid motivation. One way to do that was to build a faster rendering engine and d2d is the technology that allows that.
Rama Krishna Vavilala wrote:
So you think people will upgrade from xp to windows 7 because it has a new shiny browser that supports HTML 5?
No I don't. IE9 is just one small piece of it. It's not the first and likely won't be the last. Ask yourself these questions: Why do Firefox, Opera, Google and Apple all support XP with their latest browsers? Who stands to gain the most if more users drop XP and switch to 7? Why did Microsoft choose to not support XP? Again, I don't blame them. IMO they should just come out and say it. But they are paranoid given past monopoly issues and the EU with a hair trigger.