IE10 Coming to Windows 7 Sometime, Maybe

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Microsoft is kind of sure about maybe making Internet Explorer 10 available on Windows 7 sometime, but don’t hold them to that unspecified timeline. :D Microsoft has posted on its blog that IE 10 will be available for download as a Preview Release in the middle of November.

This won't be the first time Windows 7 users have been given a sneak peek at the new browser, either. Microsoft last offered a preview version of IE10 for the older OS in June 2011.
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Really should either way ie10 updates ie in speed and compatibility/compliance, along with simple things that should have been native to ie8 like spellcheck. Since it doesn't look like people will be picking up windows 8 in droves.
 
Semantics said:
Really should either way ie10 updates ie in speed and compatibility/compliance, along with simple things that should have been native to ie8 like spellcheck. Since it doesn't look like people will be picking up windows 8 in droves.[/QUOTE]

^ This!
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Quite frankly it's impossible for Microsoft to not release IE10 for Windows 7. Honestly, I'd expect it to come out for Windows Vista as well. I'd assume Microsoft realizes that for people to use your browser, they have to... be able to run it. I can understand cutting off Windows XP (although it's still killing their ability to recapture the market), but for Windows 7 this is not surprising in any way, and doesn't reflect poorly on Windows 8.
 
c4v3man said:
Quite frankly it's impossible for Microsoft to not release IE10 for Windows 7. Honestly, I'd expect it to come out for Windows Vista as well. I'd assume Microsoft realizes that for people to use your browser, they have to... be able to run it. I can understand cutting off Windows XP (although it's still killing their ability to recapture the market), but for Windows 7 this is not surprising in any way, and doesn't reflect poorly on Windows 8.
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Agreed however I can't understand cutting off Windows XP. As you indicated after its cutting some of the market share. Cutting some of your share by expecting the public to purchase an OS upgrade to use it just wont work. There is heavy competition in the browser market.

Typing from my Firefox browser! :p
 
tehblue said:
Agreed however I can't understand cutting off Windows XP. As you indicated after its cutting some of the market share. Cutting some of your share by expecting the public to purchase an OS upgrade to use it just wont work. There is heavy competition in the browser market.

Typing from my Firefox browser! :p
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Wouldn't surprise me if it's related to hardware accelerated browsing and WDDM drivers.

Windows XP needs to die. It'd served it's purpose, people just need to let go. That being said, it's not going anywhere, and still has a huge marketshare of people who only need a basic old computer to... oh yeah, surf the internet. Kinda ironic.
 
What does IE10 really get us anyway?

I downloaded the IE10 browser last December but forgot about installing it. Anyone here actually try it yet? I'm curious if any issues with Citrix Applicatin Portal and Java have been seen by others before I mess up my system (since I have to use CAP/JAVA to remote into work every day).
 
Don't care, I use Firefox anyway and if I couldn't use that, then I would use Chrome before going back to IE. Not having IE10 is no skin off my nose.
 
Anything that makes the internet safer for the uneducated masses (aka, IE users) is good for everyone.
 
Wow this is fantastic news, thank you so much Steve Ballmer, you have made the internet a much more enjoyable place to be :))))))
 
It's just a ploy to try and get people to sidegrade to Windows 8. They did the same with Dx 11 (which actually was a worthwhile feature), it will probably be added after 8 comes out...
 
c4v3man said:
Windows XP needs to die. It'd served it's purpose, people just need to let go. That being said, it's not going anywhere, and still has a huge marketshare of people who only need a basic old computer to... oh yeah, surf the internet. Kinda ironic.
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Remember that XP support goes away after 4/2014.

Any business still running XP really needs to get moving and upgrade their systems before then.
I had to use Windows 7 32bit on some systems because of an old application, but with a little tweeking it runs fine on Windows 7. Really doesn't matter that the App is not officially supported on Windows 7, as it so old it's not officially supported at all ;)

Hope to have all my XP system replaced by early next year, 1 year ahead of schedual :)
 
Unless IE10 joins the Internet2.0 and finally has session management, I really don't care.
 
IE10...whatever. Call me when it's as memory efficient as IE6 or as fast and secure as Lynx. Really, no one's gotten web browsing right since Lynx was ported over to Microsoft OSes.
 
It's easy to be efficient with memory when you don't use it for anything, i.e. IE6.
 
SkribbelKat said:
NO!!!! Nothing but kittens and sock puppets are better than Lynx and those aren't even web broswers. :mad:
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WWW can open pictures in seperate windows. IE/FF/Chrome/Lynx/Wildcat do not have this functionality. Plus Lynx has cookie/bookmarks which might cause security issues! :D
 
c4v3man said:
Wouldn't surprise me if it's related to hardware accelerated browsing and WDDM drivers.

Windows XP needs to die. It'd served it's purpose, people just need to let go. That being said, it's not going anywhere, and still has a huge marketshare of people who only need a basic old computer to... oh yeah, surf the internet. Kinda ironic.
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Where I work paid tens of thousands for specialised software that hasn't been updated to work in OSes newer than XP. They could pay tens of thousands again to get the newer version which does run in Vista/7, but I'm pretty sure they're going to be holding on to XP for as long as possible.
 
DeathPrincess said:
WWW can open pictures in seperate windows. IE/FF/Chrome/Lynx/Wildcat do not have this functionality. Plus Lynx has cookie/bookmarks which might cause security issues! :D
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Why do you want to even open pictures? It just needs to display text and let you tab around until you get to the hyperlink you want.
 
Ashbringer said:
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using firefox forces me quite often to open ie/chrome instead because its freezing alot and playing hires flash videos is success without a crash.
I stil use ie8 tho because ie 9 has the most annoying and un-practical interface since IE's debut in 1994
 
Acer_Sheep said:
using firefox forces me quite often to open ie/chrome instead because its freezing alot and playing hires flash videos is success without a crash.
I stil use ie8 tho because ie 9 has the most annoying and un-practical interface since IE's debut in 1994
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Yeah, Firefox has been getting worse with stability and general compatibility lately. The main reason Firefox is still my primary browser is it has add ons that I like, but increasingly I find myself going to other browsers.
 
Meh, who cares? Though if Microsoft wanted more share for IE, its reasonable they should release IE10 to Windows 7, since all the negativity about Windows 8 is going around.

But whatever, I stopped using IE as my main browser a while back and I hardly even touch it, Firefox and Chrome FTW.
 
WAIT, you're telling me that Microsoft somehow feels we still use IE? I dont even know how "people who dont know how to use comps" use IE. I showed my computer-ly impaired dad Firefox and he was absolutely mind blown about how simple it was lol.
 
Xz CJ zX said:
WAIT, you're telling me that Microsoft somehow feels we still use IE? I dont even know how "people who dont know how to use comps" use IE. I showed my computer-ly impaired dad Firefox and he was absolutely mind blown about how simple it was lol.
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When my firefox slows to a crawl because of a youtube video or crashes randomly because of hardware acceleration, yeah, I use IE, or Chrome, or Opera. :p

I typically use IE when another browser won't do what I want, and since it comes preinstalled, it's easier than downloading another whole browser.
 
IE 10 is a piece of shit. First thing I did in 8 is Download SR Iron and Firefox then I proceeded to uninstall the hunk of shit.
 
Xz CJ zX said:
WAIT, you're telling me that Microsoft somehow feels we still use IE? I dont even know how "people who dont know how to use comps" use IE. I showed my computer-ly impaired dad Firefox and he was absolutely mind blown about how simple it was lol.
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I've had better results with Firefox's recent releases on TinyCore Linux than I have with Windows. It works okay, but I don't like dealing with all the security risks and performance issues that come with Firefox. Also, constantly having to install updates that aren't part of the normal Windows Update routine because I used a 3rd party browser just adds an extra layer of messing around with a computer at home when I could be using it to download My Little Pony desktop wallpapers or hanging out at the cat forums. It's such a waste of time and effort when IE is already there and works pretty well.
 
Tudz said:
Where I work paid tens of thousands for specialised software that hasn't been updated to work in OSes newer than XP. They could pay tens of thousands again to get the newer version which does run in Vista/7, but I'm pretty sure they're going to be holding on to XP for as long as possible.
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I feel ya, however typically companies that fall into that horrible trap either

A: Had custom software developed for their use and didn't plain on keeping a developer on hand to update the software.
B: Bought expensive software for a specific LOB need, but didn't budget enough to pay for a maintenance contract, to keep the software up to date.

Seems like these two scenarios cover 70% of most of these cases, with 100% of my statistics being made up. There are rare exceptions of

C: Bought a (typically but not always) cheap alternative product for a specific LOB need from a small vendor, who went belly up, and is no longer present to support/update said software.
 
There's apparently quite a few people who still think it's 2002 and Firefox is still relevant... :D
 
c4v3man said:
I feel ya, however typically companies that fall into that horrible trap either

A: Had custom software developed for their use and didn't plain on keeping a developer on hand to update the software.
B: Bought expensive software for a specific LOB need, but didn't budget enough to pay for a maintenance contract, to keep the software up to date.

Seems like these two scenarios cover 70% of most of these cases, with 100% of my statistics being made up. There are rare exceptions of

C: Bought a (typically but not always) cheap alternative product for a specific LOB need from a small vendor, who went belly up, and is no longer present to support/update said software.
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Yeah, we kind of fall in to B. We bought this software (long before I ever started here) to capture and process images from experiments and it cost a lot. Since it's all going toward research and all the money comes from grants, when we come to looking at upgrading from XP to Vista/W7/W8, if it comes down to tens or hundreds of thousands to also upgrade the software then possibly weeks or months for us to rewrite our in house code to work with the new software... or we could spend that same money buying new cameras to take better images and spend the time doing more experiments and getting more data, it becomes much easier to justify staying with XP :p

The University I was at previously, rather than buying the processing and imaging software just wrote their own scripts to do it. So instead of paying tens of thousands of dollars to get the software, a few grad students (who had a tens of thousands of dollars worth of stipends and funding) spent their time writing programs which do the same thing, but it's hard to avoid not getting locked in to some external software when you have to buy specialised hardware and equipment that may or not be open enough for you to program yourself (and even if it is, will probably take thousands of man hours to actually do).
 
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