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- First, Google extends support for Chrome on XP for a few more years - Second, Google ends support for IE8/9. Sweet move Google/Chrome.

by l0c0b0x 13y ago

lotyrin 13y ago
Yep. Google supports modern web runtime on more of Microsoft's platforms than Microsoft themselves do. People in companies who are stuck on particular OS version, but have the freedom and motivation to adopt new productivity software can probably also download a browser. Google is making perfect sense here, the real question is why did MS screw this up so bad and integrate OS and web runtime to such a degree they can't support more of their user base?
- oneeyedpigeon 13y ago
  Yeah, Microsoft's failure to keep supporting XP users (who still make up a whopping third of the entire OS market, 12 years after that OS was released) is this decade's IE6-lock-in. Hopefully, most will move off IE8 onto Chrome, but I'm not holding my breath.
  - sounds 13y ago
    If China is any indication, XP users will end up paying not for the OS (pirate!) but for continuing support. I would laugh if some virus writers switched sides and start offering up patches for XP. They may know the core OS better than the developers still working in Redmond by now.
- code_duck 13y ago
  I've never been able to tell how much of the 'web browser is in the OS!' system was a business move to defeat Netscape and how much was an ill-conceived technical idea. Either way, 'Active Desktop' was pretty darn lousy.
- asdasf 13y ago
  >the real question is why did MS screw this up so bad and integrate OS and web runtime to such a degree they can't support more of their user base? They didn't see it as a screw up, they did it intentionally to push people into upgrading to new windows releases. They did not count on people having no interest in upgrading their computers any more, which is how most people got new windows versions.

- First, Google extends support for Chrome on XP for a few more years - Second, Google ends support for IE8/9. Sweet move Google/Chrome.

by l0c0b0x 13y ago

- First, Google extends support for Chrome on XP for a few more years - Second, Google ends support for IE8/9. Sweet move Google/Chrome.

lotyrin 13y ago

Yep. Google supports modern web runtime on more of Microsoft's platforms than Microsoft themselves do. People in companies who are stuck on particular OS version, but have the freedom and motivation to adopt new productivity software can probably also download a browser. Google is making perfect sense here, the real question is why did MS screw this up so bad and integrate OS and web runtime to such a degree they can't support more of their user base?

oneeyedpigeon 13y ago
Yeah, Microsoft's failure to keep supporting XP users (who still make up a whopping third of the entire OS market, 12 years after that OS was released) is this decade's IE6-lock-in. Hopefully, most will move off IE8 onto Chrome, but I'm not holding my breath.
- sounds 13y ago
  If China is any indication, XP users will end up paying not for the OS (pirate!) but for continuing support. I would laugh if some virus writers switched sides and start offering up patches for XP. They may know the core OS better than the developers still working in Redmond by now.
code_duck 13y ago
I've never been able to tell how much of the 'web browser is in the OS!' system was a business move to defeat Netscape and how much was an ill-conceived technical idea. Either way, 'Active Desktop' was pretty darn lousy.
asdasf 13y ago
>the real question is why did MS screw this up so bad and integrate OS and web runtime to such a degree they can't support more of their user base? They didn't see it as a screw up, they did it intentionally to push people into upgrading to new windows releases. They did not count on people having no interest in upgrading their computers any more, which is how most people got new windows versions.