04-17-2011, 04:34 PM
Forget Windows XP and Windows Vista, Internet Explorer 10 will support Windows 7 and Windows 8 exclusively.
Since IE9 doesn’t play nice with XP, it’s really no surprise at all that IE10 will also be ignoring the decade-old operating system.
However, with the delivery of the first Platform Preview of IE10, Windows Vista joins XP in warming the bench.
At least XP is being kept in the game by a loyal user base, still the largest worldwide, and over twice the size of Windows 7’s.
Vista never got much love to begin with, and dumping it for a Windows 7 upgrade feels like releasing ballast to take flight.
The IE team has met with a barrage of criticism for its decision not to bring IE9 to XP, but I doubt the fact that the same will happen over not offering IE10 on Vista. And since there is no support for XP with IE9, it’s clear that nobody should have expected the successors of Internet Explorer 9 to be any different.
Since IE9 doesn’t play nice with XP, it’s really no surprise at all that IE10 will also be ignoring the decade-old operating system.
However, with the delivery of the first Platform Preview of IE10, Windows Vista joins XP in warming the bench.
At least XP is being kept in the game by a loyal user base, still the largest worldwide, and over twice the size of Windows 7’s.
Vista never got much love to begin with, and dumping it for a Windows 7 upgrade feels like releasing ballast to take flight.
The IE team has met with a barrage of criticism for its decision not to bring IE9 to XP, but I doubt the fact that the same will happen over not offering IE10 on Vista. And since there is no support for XP with IE9, it’s clear that nobody should have expected the successors of Internet Explorer 9 to be any different.
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