IE9 Tested on WinXP?

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Is anyone testing IE9 Beta on WinXP SP3?


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Sorry, but IE9 is only for Windows 7 and the final release will require
Win 7 SP1. It won't work on XP or Vista for that matter.
 
?IE9 is not available for XP

"Tecknomage" wrote in message


Is anyone testing IE9 Beta on WinXP SP3?
 
No.

That is, IE9 is not supported on XP. You can try if you want, but they don't
think it will work. More correctly, they don't care if it doesn't work.
 
Tecknomage said:
Is anyone testing IE9 Beta on WinXP SP3?
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So just where did you read about IE9? You didn't actually visit
Microsoft's own web page on IE9. If you had, you would have seen that
IE9 doesn't install on pre-Vista versions of Windows.

http://www.microsoft.com/ie9

Now read that big orange banner sprawled across the top of the page.
See what it says about Windows XP? Microsoft is attempting to use IE9
to drag customers still using pre-Vista versions of Windows to newer
versions. Their excuse is that the security features built into IE9
rely on functionality only present in the newer Windows versions.

IE9 is supposed to encompass GPU acceleration to make faster its
rendering of 2D/3D content (that's nothing to do with bandwidth). Other
web browsers are doing the same. Chromium already has it and Google
will eventually migrate to v7 to also have it, and the same for SRware
Iron, Comodo Dragon, and other web browsers that are derivatives of
Chromium. I've heard that Firefox 4 will have it. So while Microsoft
attempts to pull customers to newer versions of Windows, the other web
browser makers will support hardware acceleration on the older versions
of Windows. Windows XP still comprises over half of Windows users.
Microsoft's market share of web browsers will plummet even more.

Rather than force users to migrate up from Windows XP, Microsoft will
simply force more users to migrate away from Internet Explorer. They
will become even less important as a web browser selection. There are
very good reasons why the majority of users have chosen to remain back
on Windows XP, and a new version of IE won't lure that populace to
upgrade. Probably the biggest push Microsoft can give to Windows XP
users to upgrade to newer Windows versions will be when they drop
support for security updates but that won't happen until 2014.
Mainstream support for Windows XP has already been dead for about a year
and a half and yet users continue using it. Just because Microsoft
doesn't support their software doesn't make it suddenly unusable.
 
Bonjour/soir, le Fri, 24 Sep 2010 13:21:04 -0500, *VanguardLH* a caressé
son clavier pour nous dire dans le message suivant:
IE9 is supposed to encompass GPU acceleration to make faster its
rendering of 2D/3D content (that's nothing to do with bandwidth). Other
web browsers are doing the same. Chromium already has it and Google
will eventually migrate to v7 to also have it, and the same for SRware
Iron, Comodo Dragon, and other web browsers that are derivatives of
Chromium. I've heard that Firefox 4 will have it. So while Microsoft
attempts to pull customers to newer versions of Windows, the other web
browser makers will support hardware acceleration on the older versions
of Windows. Windows XP still comprises over half of Windows users.
Microsoft's market share of web browsers will plummet even more.
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Money, money is the best Beatles 's hit for MS$
 
Le 24/09/2010 23:04, Michel Doucet a écrit :
Bonjour/soir, le Fri, 24 Sep 2010 13:21:04 -0500, *VanguardLH* a caressé
son clavier pour nous dire dans le message suivant:


Money, money is the best Beatles 's hit for MS$
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Monsieur le troll obsessionnel vient de lâcher sa perle.
 
Sorry, but IE9 is only for Windows 7 and the final release will require
Win 7 SP1. It won't work on XP or Vista for that matter.
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For gods sake why do you lie all the time? IE9 is meant for Vista
and above but you seem to have burried your head in the sand. Go
and play with your shitty OS and don't misinform Microsoft
Customers.
 
Sorry, but IE9 is only for Windows 7 and the final release will require
Win 7 SP1. It won't work on XP or Vista for that matter.
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For gods sake why do you lie all the time? IE9 is meant for Vista
and above but you seem to have burried [sic] your head in the sand. Go
and play with your shitty OS and don't misinform Microsoft
Customers.
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Gosh, I made a mistake and you want to make a ****ing federal case out
of it. Kiss my ass. No one uses Vista anymore and those who did are
pretty stupid. Oh, and I'll do whatever the **** my mood strikes me to
do and there isn't jack shit you can do about it.
 
Cheng Heng said:
The final version of IE9 is way ahead of time because even
Microsoft have accepted that IE9 is going to be a big flop if
there is any truth in this article:

<http://www.informationweek.com/news...eID=227500517&cid=nl_IW_daily_2010-09-24_html>
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That article is pretty much stating the obvious: Business users should not
install beta programs. That's about as common sense as it gets. Where did
you get the part about the flop, and what truth are you talking about?
 
Bonjour/soir, le Fri, 24 Sep 2010 23:08:13 +0200, *Averelll* a caressé son
clavier pour nous dire dans le message suivant:
Le 24/09/2010 23:04, Michel Doucet a écrit :
Monsieur le troll obsessionnel vient de lâcher sa perle.
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Moron's village has spoken.
 
Le 25/09/2010 11:14, Michel Doucet a écrit :
Bonjour/soir, le Fri, 24 Sep 2010 23:08:13 +0200, *Averelll* a caressé son
clavier pour nous dire dans le message suivant:


Moron's village has spoken.
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Toujours aussi insignifiantes les saillies ramollies du troll international.
 
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