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They're not exactly begging people to stop using IE, they're begging people to upgrade their IE. MS wants you to keep using their products, just new(er) version
by evilduck 14y ago
They're not exactly begging people to stop using IE, they're begging people to upgrade their IE. MS wants you to keep using their products, just new(er) versions of them.
- Piskvorrr 14y agoWell...I'd gladly upgrade my IE. But hey look, I need to upgrade my OS as well? Oh, and my computer too? Nice try, MS.
- davedx 14y agoYou can upgrade up to IE 8 on XP. What are you using?
- Piskvorrr 14y agoIIRC, the current version of IE is two major versions higher (i.e., 10) as of April 2013, and it's slightly different from IE8. (The box in question is a sandboxed VM anyway, but it bothers me that I must pay the MS tax again, just to have their current browser for development.)
- evilduck 14y agoIf you're just testing against IE for web development, Microsoft actually makes available tons of VM images with various IE versions available for free: http://www.modern.ie/en-us/virtualization-tools http://www.modern.ie/en-us/virtualization-tools
- Piskvorrr 14y agoInteresting. (Ironically, the site is broken - clicking the links doesn't seem to do anything. Perhaps it is "Optimized for IE"? ;))