Problem with IE9.....

This is a sudden complain I have with IE9.... it doesn't support XP (captin obvious from year 1990)..... as pointless as my complain is, it doesn't support XP is fact and I really don't like this direction MS positioned themselves. End of my stupid blah blah blah.... Sorry for wasting your time.

My favorite is when using IE8 on XP and browsing MS sites, popups appear that tell me to upgrade to IE9.

Personally, I don't blame it at all. I'm having to use XP at work in my new job and I'd forgotten just how awful it is. I made the foolish mistake of trying to find a file by it's contents yesterday and, rather than a near instant response, had to sit while that stupid dog thing hammered the disk inspecting individual files. And then refused to stop when I pressed stop, until about five minutes later.

Given the choice, I'd much rather see XP dead and buried.

@spivonious:

lol priceless.

I am fine with IE 9 not supporting XP as XP was released in 2011. My issue is what have they done to IE 10 that makes there be no chance it will run on Vista SP2. I have a real beef with this certain things in the OS should not be directly tied to OS release schedules given how long machines linger in houses and organizations.

Maybe this would be a good question for a C9 open question interview as they did before IE 9 was released?

Also I agree with:

spivonious wrote

My favorite is when using IE8 on XP and browsing MS sites, popups appear that tell me to upgrade to IE9.

Someone cant put some browser sniffing to say if XP and IE8 dont offer IE 9 download really.

3 minutes ago, Typhoon87 wrote

 My issue is what have they done to IE 10 that makes there be no chance it will run on Vista SP2.

You know, that's exactly the same argument with IE9, instead, it is IE10.

I guess I am looking at it as Vista is 5 years newer than XP meaning these machines will be around far longer.

Also the backend is not in XP to make it fully hardware accelerated. I would think that was probably the technical challenge that killed XP. But Its in Vista as it works with IE 9.

46 minutes ago, Typhoon87 wrote

My issue is what have they done to IE 10 that makes there be no chance it will run on Vista SP2.

Vista reaches the end of mainstream support on April 10, 2012 - before Windows8 and IE10 are due to ship, which is why Vista will not be supported by IE10.

Most companies only support the latest edition of their product. Microsoft support the two most recent. If Microsoft had to support Vista and XP for IE10, they'd be supporting four different OSes (with six service packs between them) and spend their entire life selectively disabling features (like IE's protected mode, clear-type and DirectDraw) for older OSes.

@Typhoon87:

I would rather support XP than Vista, based on market share. And you don't really need HW acceleration on most of HTML5 sites. They are just rounded border, shadow, and etc.

Is IE9 really going to get people to upgrade to newer versions of Windows? I don't see any reason to use IE over Firefox or Chrome on any version of Windows.

1 minute ago, Bass wrote

Is IE9 really going to get people to upgrade to newer versions of Windows? I don't see any reason to use IE over Firefox or Chrome on any version of Windows.

Any reason? Really? Not even for IE 9's raw 2D graphics speed, which Chrome and FireFox still can't even touch?

@cbae:

The more recent benchmarks tend to show Firefox beats IE9 these days even in 2D graphics speed. Remember Firefox is hardware accelerated (even using Direct2D/DirectWrite on Windows Vista and above). The difference is Firefox also works on Windows XP, too.

Regardless the performance of web browsers these days are all very competitive with one another and I don't see that as a reason to use one over another.

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12 minutes ago, Bass wrote

@cbae:

The more recent benchmarks tend to show Firefox beats IE9 these days even in 2D graphics speed. Remember Firefox is hardware accelerated (even using Direct2D/DirectWrite on Windows Vista and above). The difference is Firefox also works on Windows XP, too.

Regardless the performance of web browsers these days are all very competitive with one another and I don't see that as a reason to use one over another.

Good for them. I wasn't aware of there being a new release of FireFox. Version 4 was the last one I installed, and I uninstalled it after I noticed that it used up over 1GB of RAM at one point. I keep Chrome up-to-date, and I recently checked that fish tank test, and it's still horrible performance-wise.

Firefox 4? Oh please, so last year. We are on Firefox 11 already. That's two versions higher than IE9!!!

(Not to be outdone by Chrome 17.)