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You can't always make decisions based on dollars and cents, sometimes its about just being good to your users and that is one thing that Microsoft has proved in
by trustfundbaby 16y ago
You can't always make decisions based on dollars and cents, sometimes its about just being good to your users and that is one thing that Microsoft has proved incapable of over the years.
For them its always business ... which is why I hope they eventually lose the browser battle.. They act like people on Windows XP didn't also pay money for their copies of windows ... but all this will do is give people a solid excuse to use other browsers on Windows XP as IE 8 starts to age.
Thanks for letting Chrome and Firefox an unencumbered run at your market share Guys!
- Splines 16y agoThe problem is that Microsoft has too many stakeholders. The IE9 team would certainly love to have more people in the world use their product, but company-wide strategy leads to them dropping WinXP support. This is slowly going away (see the various MSFT iPhone applications), but this mentality will certainly remain with the company. Actually, I'd argue this is a strength under certain circumstances.
- CJefferson 16y agoMaybe they are having problems, like Apple, with spending money on old operating systems? Windows XP users would never pay for IE 9, and Apple claim they can't give XCode 4 away to users from an OS released 18 months ago.
- lurker17 16y agoIf it is so much work for Microsoft to support IE9 on XP, they should make it and offer it for sale. Since XP is so important, and IE9 is so important, people will surely pay for a browser upgrade, right? What's the market price for a modern browser? $79? $29? $0?! How on earth did that happen?