Microsoft confirms Internet Explorer 11 is coming to Windows 7

lehnerus2000 said:

Don't you need a working version of W8 to get W8.1?

No, you don't. I downloaded the ISO image from here: Download Windows 8.1 Preview - Microsoft Windows. I prefer installing from USB, so I extracted the files and copied them over to my bootable USB drive. Clean installation from there.

Be sure to make a note of the product key right above the download links. You will need it during installation.

I can't even run IE0 know I am going to have to find an IE 11 Block.

fireberd said:

I'll give 11 a try when it is fully released to the general public.

I tried Chrome but the google updater caused recording system audio dropout problems (and spikes on the DPC Latency Checker) on my system, which is also used for my recording studio system. It was a major hassle to get the google updater out of the system as I had to manually edit the registry to remove the multitude of google updater entries.

This is exactly why I don't use Chrome. I hated that Chrome has this ambiguous Google updater that buries itself deep in the registry and scheduled tasks, and it acts like a spyware sending every stuff you do to Google servers. It then gives you ads that is relevant to you based on your browsing history.

I only use Chromium, but it's too unstable to be my primary browser. I only used it when certain websites don't like IE.

Hopefully, it's better than IE10, as it really turned my pc topsy-turvy.

Sardonicus said:

Shouldn't they be up to IE 22 by now?
:)

If you use Firefox, you'll get the joke.

I woundn't think of MS following that rapid release scheme. Despite the radical change from 7 to 8, many people (especially the enterprise) still view MS as conservative in terms of browser support. Heck they still patch IE 6 even though it only has probably 0.1% internet browsing usage.

I get the joke now, Firefox was released long after IE, and IE is on version 10, while Mozilla Firefox is on version 22