![]() Microsoft had offered up broad hints that IE9 was not in Windows XP’s future, however. “Dropping Windows XP support is one of the worst decisions ever taken by IE team, probably even worse than disbanding the IE team back in the IE6 days,” claimed an anonymous commenter. Others bashed Microsoft on the assumption that IE9 would never run on XP. ![]() Really, enough is enough of keeping users in the lurch about Windows XP support.” “Please tell whether the final version will run on Windows XP SP3 or not,” said someone identified as “eXPerience” in a comment to a blog post by Dean Hachamovich, Microsoft’s general manager for the IE team. That caused some users to demand a straight answer. In an IE9 FAQ, for example, Microsoft responded, “It’s too early to talk about features of the Internet Explorer 9 Beta” to the query, “Will Internet Explorer 9 run on Windows XP?” The move makes Microsoft the first major browser developer to drop support for XP, the world’s most popular operating system, in a future release.Īlthough Microsoft excluded Windows XP from the list for the IE9 developer preview, it sidestepped the question about which versions of Windows the final browser would support. ![]() Computerworld – Microsoft‘s new browser, Internet Explorer 9 (IE9), will not run on Windows XP, now or when the software eventually ships, the company confirmed this week.
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