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Netflix will be taking advantage of EMEs for HTML5 DRM in IE11. Microsoft has not confirmed IE11 will be supported in any OS other than Windows 8.1. Older ver
by Zikes 13y ago
Netflix will be taking advantage of EMEs for HTML5 DRM in IE11.
Microsoft has not confirmed IE11 will be supported in any OS other than Windows 8.1.
Older versions of IE, including IE10 on Windows 7, will still require Silverlight, meaning it still will not die.
If this is to be a nail in Silverlight's coffin, it's a very tiny one.
Edit: Per freehunter's comment below, Microsoft has confirmed eventual IE11 support for Windows 7.
- freehunter 13y agoMany sites are reporting that Microsoft has confirmed IE11 support for Windows 7 [1]. The question is when, not if. [1] http://www.pcworld.com/article/2043129/internet-explorer-11-will-land-on-windows-7-someday.html http://www.pcworld.com/article/2043129/internet-explorer-11-...
- tracker1 13y agoIt took an awfully long time to get IE10 for Windows 7. Hopefully this time it will go faster.
- mtgx 13y agoIs Microsoft really releasing a new version of IE with support for only 2 major (8.1, 8.2, etc are just service packs anyway) versions of Windows back? I guess that's good for everyone, though, since it means IE won't have a huge market share anymore.
- mynameisvlad 13y agoI really don't think it's as big of a problem as you're trying to make it out to be.
- Zikes 13y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_systems http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_system...
- mynameisvlad 13y agoYour point? XP is essentially on life support at this point, and even that ends in a year. General support for XP ended in 2009. At that point, not supporting it in terms of software compatibility would be fine in my books.
- wmf 13y agoSupposedly the speed of IE 10/11 comes from not having any portability or backwards compatibility layers.
- ivanca 13y agoThey should say that it comes from being a shitty browser that lacks many apis, tools, extensibility, stability that other browsers have; just to get a cover-up for the first time.