Keep in mind that IE8 goes back to the Vista days. That was when there were still computers with just 512 MiB of memory (which might be fine with Windows 8 but

Keep in mind that IE8 goes back to the Vista days. That was when there were still computers with just 512 MiB of memory (which might be fine with Windows 8 but Vista would chomp on it hungrily). At least this could be a reason.