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    MS pushes users to ditch XP with IE9 plans....


    Posted: 09 May 2010
    Microsoft pushes users to ditch XP with IE9 plans, says analyst

    Opportunity for rivals, especially Firefox, to gain users; Chrome need not apply

    Microsoft's decision to abandon Windows XP with its next browser is a business move meant to push people off the aged operating system, an analyst said today.

    It also gives rivals like Mozilla an opportunity to make further inroads into Internet Explorer's market share, said Sheri McLeish of Forrester Research. "XP is in that same world as Office 2003 and IE6," said McLeish. "Microsoft doesn't want to prolong the life of those products."

    McLeish was reacting to Microsoft's stated plans not to support its next-generation browser, Internet Explorer 9 (IE9), in Windows XP. Google, which creates Chrome, criticized that decision yesterday during a panel discussion at Web 2.0 on the future of browsers.

    "It's not in [Microsoft's] interest to support XP," McLeish added. "They have a vision of moving people ahead on operating systems. That's their business intent."
    Source -
    Microsoft pushes users to ditch XP with IE9 plans, says analyst - Computerworld
    Posted By: JMH
    09 May 2010



  1. Posts : 1,519
    El Capitan / Windows 10
       #1

    It's not a push. It's pull.
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  2. Posts : 1,326
    Windows 10 Professional 64-bit
       #2

    baarod said:
    It's not a push. It's pull.
    This. LOL

    Anyway, good move. I'm sick and tired of seeing XP around.
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  3. Posts : 8,870
    Windows 7 Ult, Windows 8.1 Pro,
       #3

    Good idea, force XP out of existance. I could so care less about XP. :)
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  4. Posts : 354
    Windows 8, Ubuntu 12.04 64bit, Pear Linux Triple Boot
       #4

    Can't say I will ditch XP just because I can't get IE9. Firefox will support me just fine :)
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  5. Posts : 3,427
    Windows 10 Pro x64
       #5

    Its no big suprise, as they have pulled support for XP there is no reason for them to support XP with IE9,

    I can see alot of people getting peeved by this, but why not? its now 10 years old, with 2 successors, by that logic they should release it for Windows 98-ME as well
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  6. Posts : 396
    Windows 7 Professional x64
       #6

    I'm sure XP users couldn't care less when they read this in Firefox.
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  7. Posts : 52
    Wds 7 32.bit Ultimate
       #7

    baarod said:
    It's not a push. It's pull.
    LOL .... ...
    I'm glad M$ didn't "Pulling....pushing..." people to their "Suck big-time vista.."
    Can't complain anything on Wds 7 ....though ..
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  8. NoN
    Posts : 4,166
    Windows 7 Professional SP1 - x64 [Non-UEFI Boot]
       #8

    Oh Well...I still got two XP... one 10 years old and another one just 4 years old. They do both working fine with IE 8, so why should i bother IE 9 on an XP!!
    Everything grows up, as just my Win 7 will fit perfect IE 9.
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  9. Posts : 799
    Windows 8 Pro 64-bit
       #9

    QuackPot said:
    I'm sure XP users couldn't care less when they read this in Firefox.
    I actually read this article on a friend's XP, which was running FireFox. Oh, the irony.
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