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I'm not sure how much it would have mattered to have IE mode before, since Edge only ran on Windows > 8.1 IE mode is really killer when combined with the fact

I'm not sure how much it would have mattered to have IE mode before, since Edge only ran on Windows > 8.1 IE mode is really killer when combined with the fact that the new Edge will run on Windows 7.

dfabulich 8y ago
Windows 7 isn't my biggest concern, though I agree that IE mode on Edge for Win7 will strike a killing blow. According to my site's analytics, 41% of our IE11 users are on Windows 10, plus another 5.63% on Windows 8. (Windows 7 reaches End of Life in January 2020.)
- yjftsjthsd-h 8y ago
  So then ~53% of your IE11 users are still on Windows 7? That certainly sounds like something you should still care about.
  - dfabulich 8y ago
    I do care, (and of course we still support IE11 on any OS version) but Win7/IE11 users are gradually upgrading on their own. I was afraid that IE11 would literally never go away. Microsoft has said that they'll support IE11 until Windows 10 reached End of Life. But they've also said that Windows 10 is the "last version" of Windows, that they'll continue shipping new updates for Windows 10 in perpetuity. Now, I have hope.
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Shorel 8y ago
IE mode will not make the new Edge kill Chrome in market share. The relationship is the other way around: the lack of Windows 7 support is what killed Edge in the real world. Anyway, Microsoft is learning from its mistakes.
- jessaustin 8y ago
  The implied victim seemed to be IE, not Chrome...
  - Shorel 8y ago
    In that case, it was already dead, for all practical purposes. For example https://lichess.org/blog/XMvcJSwAADkA0hPE/lichess-v2-is-here https://lichess.org/blog/XMvcJSwAADkA0hPE/lichess-v2-is-here