Windows XP No IE9 For You!!!!

[noobvious]

Your want, is not your need. You force yourself to upgrade (of your own free will) to satisfy your want. Again, not Microsoft's responsibility. I want the new Playstation 3 games on my Playstation 2, why Sony...why must I buy a PS3!

:roflmao:

 

[ACR731]

Your want, is not your need. You force yourself to upgrade (of your own free will) to satisfy your want. Again, not Microsoft's responsibility. I want the new Playstation 3 games on my Playstation 2, why Sony...why must I buy a PS3!

Go ahead and be a smart a$$ all you want; you're not going to bother me in the least. If that makes you feel better then go ahead and knock yourself out.

"Want" has nothing to do with my comments. Microsoft could easily make IE9 compatible for several OS's (including XP). They did it with IE8, IE7, IE6, etc. The problem is they don't "want" to make it compatible with XP because they "want" people to buy Win 7 instead. Thats how they make their living.

And I'm not complaining about it either. I've mentioned numerous times I use Win 7, and when IE9 comes out I will try it. Microsoft didn't become a multi-billion company by playing fair. I wouldn't play fair either if it was taking money out of my pocket.

 

[Airbot]

Please keep the discussions friendly.

 

[ACR731]

I can see why Microsoft isn't supporting backwards compatibility, it's just easier to make it not. And from their view it will encourage some to go with windows 7, giving them some profit and make it easier to focus on their latest products instead of the old.

DiNG DING DING... we have a winner. This is all I am trying to say. Microsoft isn't going to give IE9 to the XP peeps because they want to "encourage" (I'll use this word instead of "force") them to buy Win 7. Why? Because people sticking with XP costs them money.

Personally, I love new toys and welcome change in any fashion. But unfortunately, I have no choice but to stick with XP when I'm at work..

 

[Zomby88]

What an absolutely useless thread, This is the WINDOWS 7 forum

 

[Kari]

I can see why Microsoft isn't supporting backwards compatibility, it's just easier to make it not. And from their view it will encourage some to go with windows 7, giving them some profit and make it easier to focus on their latest products instead of the old.

DiNG DING DING... we have a winner. This is all I am trying to say. Microsoft isn't going to give IE9 to the XP peeps because they want to "encourage" (I'll use this word instead of "force") them to buy Win 7. Why? Because people sticking with XP costs them money.

Personally, I love new toys and welcome change in any fashion. But unfortunately, I have no choice but to stick with XP when I'm at work..

It seems you have not offered a single thought to how difficult it is to create new applications and OS's, if you have to think that it must also be compatible with ancient versions.

What would, in your opinion, be the correct time for Microsoft to let XP go? After Windows 11? Year 2020? Should we until then get only part of what the technology has made possible, because maintaining the compatibility forces developers to leave out some new features?

Kari

 

[Barman58]

Microsoft's policy has long been to provide backwards compatibility for the previous OS to their current one.

This keeps the amount of workarounds included in new software to an acceptable minimum

Thus with the release of win7 backwards compatibility for XP ceased.

 

[Coco15]

Mainstream support ends on the 14th April this year, why should MS release a new browser for an obsolete OS.

Should they still be providing it for 95/98/me NT/2000?

They Should support Windows XP. But there's no point in supporting windows 95/98/me/2000 that's why Extended support for Windows 2000 is ending on 13 july 2010.

 

[logicearth]

They Should support Windows XP. But there's no point in supporting windows 95/98/me/2000 that's why Extended support for Windows 2000 is ending on 13 july 2010.

Extended support says nothing about providing new applications. Extended support is only to continue security updates, anything more requires a large sum of cash.

 

[Klaw117]

They Should support Windows XP. But there's no point in supporting windows 95/98/me/2000 that's why Extended support for Windows 2000 is ending on 13 july 2010.

Extended support says nothing about providing new applications. Extended support is only to continue security updates, anything more requires a large sum of cash.

By the time IE9 is released, mainstream support for Windows XP will end. Since extended support doesn't provide new applications (judging by what the quote above says), there is no point for Microsoft to make IE9 compatible with XP systems.

I'm actually kind of glad about this. Windows XP has been out for 9 years, yet still dominates the usage share of all operating systems and by all, I mean Windows, Mac, Linux, Phone OS, etc. In a world that's on the cusp of the Digital Revolution, this isn't that good.

 

[Kari]

I'm actually kind of glad about this. Windows XP has been out for 9 years, yet still dominates the usage share of all operating systems and by all, I mean Windows, Mac, Linux, Phone OS, etc. In a world that's on the cusp of the Digital Revolution, this isn't that good.

+1

Like I said in my earlier post, the XP has ruled about a third of our PC era. It's time to go, XP. Let the new OS's come.

 

[Coco15]

Are we saying Just ignore Windows XP and Vista? Just focus on Windows 7 and look ahead?

 

[pezzonovante]

Are we saying Just ignore Windows XP and Vista? Just focus on Windows 7 and look ahead?

The answer to your question is obvious. Windows XP should be completely ignored. If I were Microsoft, I would have dropped XP support long ago with IE8 or even IE7. Vista is a more modern OS and is the foundation of Windows 7. It is much more secure than XP. So Vista should be supported as long as Windows 7 is supported.

 

[PeteC]

I see both sides of this subject: Windows XP, which I first bought and installed back in 2001, is without a doubt "the past", and it really makes no sense from MS's point of view to keep marketing software enhancements for it...simply is not a wise decision either from a business aspect, nor from a development aspect. Continuing to retro-fit software can limit the ability to add features that best serve newer hardware.

At the same time, old as XP is, it is STILL the first non-DOS OS (aside of Win 2000) closely related to not only Vista, but Win 7 as well. In fact, my less-then-1-year-old netbook, came with Win XP SP3 installed! Although Vista worked just fine for me, a lot of folks never really accepted it, and XP remained their OS of choice, so XP dos not "feel" as old as it actually is.

Though I am sympathetic to Coco15's response, I can not fault MS for not retro-fitting this to XP. Besides which, IE7, IE8, FireFox, Chrome, all run just fine on XP, so it is not as if the lack of IE9 is going to be ruinous.

 

[CarlTR6]

Well said, Pete.

 

[tw33k]

the poll that was added is classic!! :roflmao:

 

[Adrian]

As with ME and 2000 are we now saying Windows XP and Vista are outdated?

As you are an experienced builder you must be aware of XP's limited memory call and 32 bit limitations. As bus and bit speeds and memory call have increased the older OS's are becoming obsolete, so all your arguments are for naught!
As a proponent of "Moore's Law" Microsoft has improved their operating systems incrementally. Supporting the older os has to stop.

Regards,
Adrian

 

[sergiogarcia9]

LMAO, I wouldnt even trust him with the bread for my toaster

I think he gets the ID10T error often

 

[cloud8521]

LMAO, I wouldnt even trust him with the bread for my toaster

I think he gets the ID10T error often

I really do bet he does get that ID:10t error . plus anyone can build a damn computer and have it work. so you can match a shaped slot to a matching shaped card? oh wow you must be a genuis, of course toddlers can match shapes to the right shaped hole too.

hell i was building computers before i was 10!

 

[Kari]

Assembling a computer from components is easy compared to to assembling an IKEA bookshelf...