Internet Explorer 9 Will Never Work on XP

[Darth Sushi]

Internet Explorer 9 Will Never Work on XP
By Kevin Parrish, March 18, 2010

" It's a modern browser for modern systems.

Tuesday Internet Explorer general manager Dean Hachamovitch introduced Internet Explorer 9 to MIX10 attendees. The reveal showed that the new browser is slated to support HTML5, hardware-accelerated graphics and text, and will also use a new JavaScript engine. Microsoft even made available a downloadable "platform preview," mainly designed for developers but was also open for general viewing.

However Tuesday we discovered that the IE9 platform preview wouldn't install on Windows platforms older than Vista SP2. The demo itself wasn't really usable as a browser: it lacked a full user interface. But despite its limitations, it was assumed that the lack of pre-Vista SP2 support was only applied to the current download.

That's not the case. In fact, Microsoft has now made it perfectly clear that Internet Explorer 9 will not work on Windows XP now or in the future. "Building a modern browser requires a modern operating system," Hachamovitch said during a press conference at the event.

For users of the older OS, Internet Explorer 8 might be the last new browser from Microsoft.

In related news, CNET reports that Hachamovitch also briefly talked about codecs Microsoft will support in Internet Explorer 9, however Hachamovitch would only "commit to H.264." "

Source: http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Internet...news-6186.html

[1000possibleclaws]

IE is only a tool to get onto mozilla.com to download Firefox. If you can't use Version 9 on XP, well, no big deal!

[RevFinch]

IE is only a tool to get onto mozilla.com to download Firefox. If you can't use Version 9 on XP, well, no big deal!

+1

How much longer until MSIE is the new Netscape?

[Cabalo]

IE is only a tool to get onto mozilla.com to download Firefox. If you can't use Version 9 on XP, well, no big deal!

Indeed. It's the only time I use IE. And now no longer, as in win7 you have the option to install different browsers.

Besides, who in their right mind uses XP ?

[thisguy]

IE is only a tool to get onto mozilla.com to download Firefox. If you can't use Version 9 on XP, well, no big deal!

i totally agree with you there and what ever happened to microsoft providing support for xp up until 2014 seems to me like there not keeping there end of the bargain lol

[Sporkk]

They are making x264 the standard way to play video with html 5. Mozilla has to find some way to offer a plugin for it otherwise they have to pay royalties for the proprietary format. Youtube already has a html5/x264 beta going.

[Cut-Copy-Paste]

did some one said IE modern browser?

[brilman]

Can't remember the last time I used IE
Seems Windows Media Center or networking don't play nice with Xp ether. I'll stick with 7 and Ubuntu. HEY Bill isn't that kind of forcing people to buy win7 (just saying...)

[Sporkk]

HEY Bill isn't that kind of forcing people to buy win7 (just saying...)

Don't you mean Stevie?

[technobob]

"Building a modern browser requires a modern operating system," had good chuckle on that statement. W7 is nothing more then a collection of DOS, 3.1, 95, 98, XP with some new window dressing. If MS really wants a modern day OS then they need to cut the strings and build a new architecture like Apple did with OSX.