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IE9, XP, and Apple
- Pewpewarrows 16y agoWas pretty hilarious listening to their evasive answers to every question in the Reddit IE9 Devs AMA. It basically equated to: we're not making this for XP because of new technology we're using that's only preset in Vista/7's OS. When asked why they didn't just selectively make use of the features if they were present instead of crippling the entire browser's backwards-capability, they never responded. It was pretty obvious that they're only doing it to try and force people to upgrade from XP (which is hilarious in and of itself, spend $400 on a new OS for an inferior browser that other competitors offer for free). Oh, and Chrome/Firefox will both work on XP, will both have equivalent if not better hardware accelerate graphics, and will both probably go stable before IE9 releases.
- alanh 16y agoNot just Firefox and Chrome, but Safari as well! Imagine, better OS support in a browser from a direct competitor…
- DjDarkman 16y agoIE9 can't run on XP because it has 'hardware acceleration', that can be turned off. XP is good enough for the insane amount of 3D games, that use 'hardware acceleration' you know like Star Craft 2, but hey it's not good enough for a web browser. Well what else should I expect from Microsoft? Note: I know that the hw acceleration uses some API, that XP lacks, but if there is one thing Microsoft is good at it's emulation/backward compatibility, they just don't want to do it so that you have to go and spend your money on a new PC and a shiny new Windows.