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Well sur-frikkin-prise, IE9 is not compatible with XP; never has been and is not planned to be. How in the world would it have any effect? (Or am I misunderstan

Well sur-frikkin-prise, IE9 is not compatible with XP; never has been and is not planned to be. How in the world would it have any effect? (Or am I misunderstanding the article entirely?)

ljf 15y ago
Yes - doesn't really make sense, guessing them meant to say: While the silent updates have little affect on ie6 and 7 usage on XP. The problem is - many many many offices are stuck with computers running XP (or even older OS) as they are stuck using business software that will not run on later OS's. We launched a clickable flash video player and found many offices were still running flash 8 or 9. Our dev tried to tell us they would all migrate soon, but the thing is they have never worked in the corporate world, so don't know how slow internal IT teams are to update, for a whole host of reasons.
- pragmatic 15y ago
  > as they are stuck using business software that will not run on later OS's. Yes, that is an issue. The bigger issue is the 4+ plus year downturn in the economy. Many companies (even companies that are super profitable, like mine) haven't spent money upgrading perfectly usable PC's. It sucks being stuck on IE8, but we can (and do) deploy Firefox and or Chrome (both depending on need) that both work on XP.
acqq 15y ago
Maybe the article was written by somebody who doesn't know the simple fact you've pointed to? Surprisingly, even here such a non-story can become "news."
- Strom 15y ago
  The article was written by the founder of winrumors.com so I would imagine he is aware of that fact.
  - acqq 15y ago
    I've tried to read the article starting from your assumption, and I admit it can be read so, but it still doesn't give the clear message: Windows XP is not mentioned even once in the article, even if it's a "stumbling point" for Microsoft -- they were able to produce an IE 9 for it just as Google can make a Chrome, Mozilla can make Firefox and Opera can make Opera which run on Windows XP. Instead, the highest IE you can have on Windows XP is IE 8, and as far as I know still before this today already "old" IE is installed it insists to run what Microsoft calls "Windows Genuine Advantage Check" which makes problem on a lot of "acceptably" installed Windows XP computers from the perspective of the time they were installed: only during the life of the Windows XP Microsoft decided to "change the rules" of what's "acceptable" installation for them. Therefore administrators who don't want to reinstall Windows XP on the existing old computers ("if it works don't touch it") of course decide to block the updates which would break (in the "your software is not genuine" way) the computers which will anyway be replaced in some reasonable time -- but not exactly at the time Microsoft would like, which is right now. That's the real story behind the statistics presented, at least regarding the Windows XP, the OS mentioned in the title and nowhere in the text of the article.
- gouranga 15y ago
  Welcome to so-called journalism in 2012. I wish the Internet had a fact filter that removed junk like this.

Well sur-frikkin-prise, IE9 is not compatible with XP; never has been and is not planned to be. How in the world would it have any effect? (Or am I misunderstanding the article entirely?)

ljf 15y ago

Yes - doesn't really make sense, guessing them meant to say: While the silent updates have little affect on ie6 and 7 usage on XP. The problem is - many many many offices are stuck with computers running XP (or even older OS) as they are stuck using business software that will not run on later OS's. We launched a clickable flash video player and found many offices were still running flash 8 or 9. Our dev tried to tell us they would all migrate soon, but the thing is they have never worked in the corporate world, so don't know how slow internal IT teams are to update, for a whole host of reasons.

pragmatic 15y ago
> as they are stuck using business software that will not run on later OS's. Yes, that is an issue. The bigger issue is the 4+ plus year downturn in the economy. Many companies (even companies that are super profitable, like mine) haven't spent money upgrading perfectly usable PC's. It sucks being stuck on IE8, but we can (and do) deploy Firefox and or Chrome (both depending on need) that both work on XP.

acqq 15y ago

Maybe the article was written by somebody who doesn't know the simple fact you've pointed to? Surprisingly, even here such a non-story can become "news."

Strom 15y ago
The article was written by the founder of winrumors.com so I would imagine he is aware of that fact.
- acqq 15y ago
  I've tried to read the article starting from your assumption, and I admit it can be read so, but it still doesn't give the clear message: Windows XP is not mentioned even once in the article, even if it's a "stumbling point" for Microsoft -- they were able to produce an IE 9 for it just as Google can make a Chrome, Mozilla can make Firefox and Opera can make Opera which run on Windows XP. Instead, the highest IE you can have on Windows XP is IE 8, and as far as I know still before this today already "old" IE is installed it insists to run what Microsoft calls "Windows Genuine Advantage Check" which makes problem on a lot of "acceptably" installed Windows XP computers from the perspective of the time they were installed: only during the life of the Windows XP Microsoft decided to "change the rules" of what's "acceptable" installation for them. Therefore administrators who don't want to reinstall Windows XP on the existing old computers ("if it works don't touch it") of course decide to block the updates which would break (in the "your software is not genuine" way) the computers which will anyway be replaced in some reasonable time -- but not exactly at the time Microsoft would like, which is right now. That's the real story behind the statistics presented, at least regarding the Windows XP, the OS mentioned in the title and nowhere in the text of the article.
gouranga 15y ago
Welcome to so-called journalism in 2012. I wish the Internet had a fact filter that removed junk like this.