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They did exactly this with Edge, which - AFAIK - is not a system component, but a standalone application, just like the others.
by drdaeman 11y ago
They did exactly this with Edge, which - AFAIK - is not a system component, but a standalone application, just like the others.
- jessaustin 11y agoSure that's the plan, but it doesn't seem to have actually rolled out to any users yet? Why do they need IE 11 if Edge is ready to go?
- drdaeman 11y agoProbably because Edge is a Metro/ModernUI app that doesn't work on Vista and 7.
- jessaustin 11y agoSo... not actually standalone. Chrome and Firefox don't have that dependency. I guess that memo still hasn't been sent.
- drdaeman 11y agoBut it's perfectly normal to depend on some OS parts and have minimum version requirements. Happens with everything out there, just that thresholds are different. Any recent Chrome doesn't run on Windows XP. IE11 doesn't run on Vista. Edge doesn't run on 7. Safari 7 doesn't run on OS X 10.8. What do you propose to MS - to spend time supporting Windows Vista? Or make a browser that supports it? Bet they just don't care about Vista, besides security patches and alike stuff that they have to do under various enterprise contracts. Given that they go lengths to persuade 7 & 8.x users into upgrading to 10, doubt they care much about those versions, too.
- jessaustin 11y agoAny recent Chrome doesn't run on Windows XP. I'm regularly in an office that is rife with XP. I won't be in that office to check the exact versions on all the installed Chromes for a couple of weeks, but they certainly seem up-to-date.