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Microsoft won't let Internet Explorer 10 run on Windows Vista
SOFTWARE FLOGGER Microsoft has let slip that Windows Vista users won't be able to run its upcoming Internet Explorer 10 (IE10) web browser.
Microsoft was demonstrating IE10 at its MIX 2011 developer event at Las Vegas, not only showing the web browser running on Windows 8 but running it on an Nvidia Tegra chip. Later, Microsoft announced that only Windows 7 and Windows 8 users will have access to IE10, leaving Windows Vista users in the lurch.
Microsoft's decision to allow Windows 7 and Windows 8 users access to IE10 is similar to what the software company did with Windows XP users for IE9. However Windows XP users had been supported with the latest version of IE for close to 10 years, whereas IE10 is expected to come out sometime in 2012 with Windows 8, meaning that Windows Vista users will have had less than six years of Internet Explorer support.
Microsoft released IE9 last month amid much fanfare and the browser represented a significant effort by Microsoft to drag IE to a point where it could compete with Apple, Google, Mozilla and Opera. Although Mozilla's Firefox 4 massively eclipsed the IE9 'download record', Microsoft's web browser has been commended for being one of the firm's most standards compliant web browsers. Although, looking back on the previous versions of Internet Exploder, perhaps that wasn't quite the achievement it might seem.
Intel won't be particularly happy with Microsoft's IE10 demonstration either, since the software outfit chose to show how Windows 8 and its web browser fared on the ARM-based Tegra chip. Earlier this week Intel launched its Oak Trail Z670 Atom chip, which it is pitching at tablet manufacturers, using Windows compatibility as its big selling point. Microsoft, on the other hand, was keen to publicise Windows' ARM capabilities rather than show how Windows 8 fares on x86 chips.
Microsoft's decision to leave Windows Vista users in the lurch with IE10 could be construed as a ploy to get them to upgrade to Windows 8. However with capable alternatives available from Google, Mozilla and Opera, it's more than likely Microsoft will see a plateau or drop in IE's market share rather than an increase in Windows 8 sales. µ
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Of what relevance is the fact that you got broken drivers from your laptop vendor to this article about browsers?
As you yourself state 'My laptop came with Vista' - so if it didnt work you should have demanded that the problems be solved by the Laptop manufacturer, instead of downgrading to freeware.
It is well established that Vista itself is a very stable OS and has no inherent BSOD issues.
Another open source user under the illusion that such products are more secure than Microsoft's. Actually vulnerability counts in pretty much every open source equivalent to a Microsoft OS or Server app are MUCH higher.
Better support? You must be kidding. Microsoft has about the best support operation there is - for instance free telephone support for security issues, free forum support, free email support, and the option of remote control support / investigation of issues, etc.
And as to security, at least IE9 is fully fixed and secure from all known threats.
Security rating of FF4 with all current fixes = HIGHLY CRITICAL unpatched vulnerabilities:
http://secunia.com/advisories/product/34777/
Not to mention that IE9 HAS FEWER KNOWN VULNERABILITIES than FF.
Who cares? IE sucks anyway. FF has much better support and is more secure and customizable.
I can't stand MS or IE. But people that have paid for an OS deserve to be able to use it as there PAID for it.
My laptop came with Vista and everything causes BSOD. Vista and 7 are just crap made to look like pudding. SO my laptop is quite happy with Ubuntu. But if you must have windows, windows 7 is not hard to activate. And you did pay for an OS, you deserve one that works.
My VLC player, and Firefox are the default apps on any computer I own.
You know, if IE 9 can't be released to Vista, it means they are tying IE even more to Windows OS.
On the other hand, even Apple's "enemies" does ship webkit browsers on systems/chips that has nothing to do with OSX.
Once more, we see MS fails to change their culture.
It also tells a lot about the wrong photocopying of Apple. Apple did drop some support for PPC but they didn't leave their customers with non updated system browser. System browser and html rendering framework does effect a lot of software, including third party apps relying on it and the OS itself.
So they have chosen to maintain ie 8 with crazy security updates for life of Vista. what a practical approach to development efficency :)
Lets not forget, as long as xp being maintained, they have to maintain that ie too. That makes 3 seperate major versions of same software with a very serious exploit risks.
What a genius idea of PR :)
I'm surprised by the outrage people are having over two software pariahs not supporting each other. By 2012 Vista will be 5 years old, and I can't imagine people really missing out on much in IE10, when they could get some other browser, or even better, a better OS.
If anything this is another reason to dump Vista for something else. I'm just surprised people are so up in arms over Vista users missing out on Internet Explorer of all things.
What kind of business is Microsoft? Trying to get people to spend money on newer software? They should be ashamed of themselves trying to make money and stuff. Why won't they continue supporting my Windows 95 installation? What is wrong with them?!
Wait, nevermind, I just thought about it... it DOES make sense, afterall.
I cant see this affecting huge amounts of people but unless there is a proper technical reason to bar vista users from IE10 then they should not do it. I dont use vista so won't be affected but it does frustrate me. However, you could look at Apple who only support their current and last Operating system version and actually it doesnt look too bad. But still... Its just a browser! And as others have mentioned there are plenty of alternatives.
I use Vista and I wasn't planning on upgrading until Win8 came out. So this works out just fine for me. Although I wouldn't be caught using IE as my primary web browser anyway.
Wonder how long it will take to fool the installer so that it IE10 actually installs on LoseDoze Vista or even LoseDoze XP.
Of course Micr0$uck$ is trying to force (l)users to "upgrade" (i.e. had over the $$$), there is no technical reason a browser couldn't support ANY O/S for that matter.
Wonder how long it will take the shepe to wake up and smell the soiled diaper that M$ is wearing.
No problem since no-one uses Vista. People who wanted to be on the cutting edge and jumped on Vista when it came out did the same thing when 7 came out after that.
And of course those who didn't will continue to stick with XP.
Upgrading to Windows is not cheap and the process of reinstalling your system is not fun when you have to install an upgrade on to of it. Windows 7 is just a tweated/optimized version of Vista with a few features added on.
I find Microsoft's blocking Vista customers to be rediculous. They cannot make the same arguments from XP to Vista for the graphics pipe.
I have always used IE as my primary browser. It looks like the are working on loosing browser ground by just letting customers go.
I'm a stuborn customer, after IE9, I may not touch IE for years if I cannot upgrade on my Vista machines which I will surely be using for at least 2-4 more years. By then I could very well become acustome to Firefox or Chrome.
What is MS thinking this will accomplish.
Happy to see MS kill there customer base.
Add more bad phone software, web/os, ios and android pc's and the wicked witch will kill itself
this company need to see some claaass acction for fraud.