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Does this mean that IE9 will be available on Win XP? It would be great, but I doubt that Microsoft will do something like that. Most likely Win XP users will g
by markokocic 15y ago
Does this mean that IE9 will be available on Win XP?
It would be great, but I doubt that Microsoft will do something like that. Most likely Win XP users will get "only" security updates an service packs for IE7, Vista users for IE8 and only Win7 users will get the latest IE.
That being said, I can't see this as a big leap forward, since large majority of users will not get the latest browser update.
- fleitz 15y agoNo it doesn't nor does it mean that safari 5 will be available for OSX 10.1 (another OS released around the same time). What large majority of users still use XP? I'd be surprised if winxp was 50% let alone 80%. It's official there are more 7 installs than Xp so no majority let alone a large one. If you want updates upgrade to win7, xp is over 10 years old. Ie8 already runs fine on xp.
- sixbrx 15y agoI'm in FDA and XP is currently the requirement for us. Anything newer takes a request for exemption which is a lot of paperwork that will quite possibly be denied.
- damncabbage 15y agoMost of the machines in the office here (about forty or so) are XP. We're not a large government bureaucracy, just a small-medium business. I'd be surprised if a great deal of other businesses are in the same situation. Outside of technology companies I haven't seen many running Windows 7; there isn't a strong enough business case for most people yet.