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Ok, so I said to myself: Fine, let's download ie9, check it out and look at that demo page. So I google it up, I see the ie9 test drive.. Then, where is the [DO
by d0m 16y ago
Ok, so I said to myself: Fine, let's download ie9, check it out and look at that demo page. So I google it up, I see the ie9 test drive.. Then, where is the [DOWNLOAD IE9 BETA] button? I can't see it.. so I google again: ie9 DOWNLOAD.. same page, no download.
Finally, reading a bit everywhere, I see a: Download beta9 now. Good.. I click on it. And I see: [Since you're running Windows XP, you won't be able to install Internet Explorer 9 unless you upgrade to a more recent version of Windows.]
So you know what? Fuck you, I stick with My XP/Mac and Chrome.
- Groxx 16y agoHuh. Wonder why they're not putting it on XP. Is it just that they don't want to support it, or are they using IE9 as the carrot-on-a-stick that (IMO) DirectX 10 utterly failed at?
- bitslayer 16y agoutterly at... fail?
- Groxx 16y agoHeh, oops. Hit undo once too many times. Fixed :)
- bd 16y agoI guess it could be because IE9 is probably built upon new APIs that came only in Vista, where Windows switched to HW accelerated windows management (which was pretty fundamental system-level change): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Display_Driver_Model http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Display_Driver_Model
- mahmud 16y agoA good chunk of my 5PM today was spent trying to install Visual C++ Express. Just try it. It downloads, it unpacks to C:\${GUID} aaand .. nothing happens. Over and over and over again, using 3 different browsers. Even when I try to make win32 builds of FOSS stuff just to be nice to people without compilers, MS platform actively refuses to cooperate.