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Currently all those XP users can easily run Firefox or Chrome and are therefore not stuck to IE7, but I really wonder how long that will be possible. Will it be
by atesti 13y ago
Currently all those XP users can easily run Firefox or Chrome and are therefore not stuck to IE7, but I really wonder how long that will be possible. Will it be 1 or 2 years until Chrome won't run anymore on Windows XP?
(Firefox has problems with the linker of older visual studio compilers already and any software compiled with a newer microsoft compiler will need the msvcrt update, unless you use http://kobyk.wordpress.com/2007/07/20/dynamically-linking-with-msvcrtdll-using-visual-c-2005/ http://kobyk.wordpress.com/2007/07/20/dynamically-linking-wi... )
Those XP machines will never be upgraded and many won't be replaced until there are no spare parts anymore.
One really can't trust Google to keep anything around for more than 6 months
- illyism 13y agoThose XP machines can download an older version of Chrome if it ever comes to that. And if Google Chrome no longer provides support I'm sure Chromium will. XP is 10 years old. It's remarkable that Google does still support it (unlike Microsoft supporting their own software) so let's praise them on that.
- atesti 13y agoThat older version wouldn't get security updates. And if it were to get them, but no new features, future web devs would forever be stuck with that old legacy webgl ;-) But you are right that they should be praised for the past work.
- scholia 13y agoWhere do you download older versions of Chrome, please? I uninstalled Chrome 27 completely because it was unusable (slow, pale blue screens, crashy etc) on XP but Chrome 25 worked fine.... PS XP is 12 years old.
- epmatsw 13y agoIf you're relying on more than 6 months of support (or any support really) from a free product in an enterprise environment, you're doing it wrong.
- yawaramin 13y agoMicrosoft will stop supporting XP in roughly a year. Then you either upgrade or expose yourself.