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Just to be clear, the rest of the browser world offers modern browsers across a wide array of operating systems. Microsoft can't even be bothered to offer a mod

by stdgy 13y ago

Just to be clear, the rest of the browser world offers modern browsers across a wide array of operating systems. Microsoft can't even be bothered to offer a modern browser across more than two of their own Operating Systems. Chrome spans at least 7(And that's a conservative estimate) Operating Systems. Firefox the same. And both update in a sane manner. It's nice that Microsoft offers a good solution to the 5% of users on the cutting edge, but they are still ludicrously behind the curve.

nivla 13y ago
>Just to be clear, the rest of the browser world offers modern browsers across a wide array of operating systems. Microsoft can't even be bothered to offer a modern browser across more than two of their own Operating Systems. Keep in mind the rest of the two browsers aren't tightly integrated with any OS, thus can enjoy the flexibility what IE can't.
- TwoBit 13y ago
  Maybe IE shouldn't be so tightly integrated with the OS.
- stusmall 13y ago
  As my father used to say: "'Doc, it hurts when I do this.' 'Well, don't do that!'"
- STRML 13y ago
  Why can't IE be released in a form that is not so tied to the OS, and leave the old IE bits where they lie? In XP, for example, they could leave the rotting old IE8 guts in, and release a standalone IE11 that opens instead of IE8. Of course, I would much rather they just exit the browser market entirely. They keep embarrassing themselves over and over again. While new releases are (finally) somewhat modern, there are still incredibly frustrating new bugs with every release that take years to get fixed, holding the web back again and again.
bkurtz13 13y ago
And we're not even mentioning Safari, I guess.
- stdgy 13y ago
  The Safari picture is a bit more... complicated. The latest version of Safari only supports Mavericks(I believe?), but 93% of all online Macs are eligible for the free upgrade to Mavericks.

by stdgy 13y ago

nivla 13y ago

>Just to be clear, the rest of the browser world offers modern browsers across a wide array of operating systems. Microsoft can't even be bothered to offer a modern browser across more than two of their own Operating Systems. Keep in mind the rest of the two browsers aren't tightly integrated with any OS, thus can enjoy the flexibility what IE can't.

TwoBit 13y ago
Maybe IE shouldn't be so tightly integrated with the OS.
stusmall 13y ago
As my father used to say: "'Doc, it hurts when I do this.' 'Well, don't do that!'"
STRML 13y ago
Why can't IE be released in a form that is not so tied to the OS, and leave the old IE bits where they lie? In XP, for example, they could leave the rotting old IE8 guts in, and release a standalone IE11 that opens instead of IE8. Of course, I would much rather they just exit the browser market entirely. They keep embarrassing themselves over and over again. While new releases are (finally) somewhat modern, there are still incredibly frustrating new bugs with every release that take years to get fixed, holding the web back again and again.

bkurtz13 13y ago

And we're not even mentioning Safari, I guess.

stdgy 13y ago
The Safari picture is a bit more... complicated. The latest version of Safari only supports Mavericks(I believe?), but 93% of all online Macs are eligible for the free upgrade to Mavericks.