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That's true, but on the other hand, as TFA points out, IE8 is the latest that a WinXP user can ever get from Microsoft, which is two-years old and practically o
by generalk 16y ago
That's true, but on the other hand, as TFA points out, IE8 is the latest that a WinXP user can ever get from Microsoft, which is two-years old and practically outdated now. Linking IE6 users to IE8 is progress, sure, but useless given that they could be running Chrome or Firefox, which are actually modern browsers.
- yuhong 16y agoYea, I think the real problem here is that IE9 is not available for XP, which is the newest version of Windows shipping with IE6, so they are stuck upgrading them to IE8.
- okaramian 16y agoOr that people are still running on an OS that came out a decade ago. My company is B2B and we stopped supporting IE6 at all around the time I started working here. We just suggest clients either upgrade or deal with it.
- smackfu 16y agoAnd how old is Win XP?
- kronusaturn 16y agoAre you trying to say you think it's more effective to encourage users to buy Windows 7 (and most likely a new computer to support it) than to encourage them to install Firefox or Chrome for free?
- rbanffy 16y agoI would rather encourage users to download an easy and newbie-friendly Linux distro and experiment with it. Sure, XP is an obsolete OS. Modernizing the whole stack is a much better solution than adding a modern browser to an obsolete OS.
- streptomycin 16y agoIt doesn't matter. It's the most popular operating system in the world, no matter how old it is.