Just tried to download IE9 for my XP powered laptop - no go.

And the reason:-

http://www.techdreams.org/microsoft/microsoft-launches-ie9-preview-no-support-for-xp/3816-20100318

Anyway, got it installed on the desktop. The browser works much faster now - or normally, as users of Firefox would say.

Postscript

Failed the Acid 3 test.

I'll try Chrome or safari on the laptop.

Nick

Edited 26 March, 201115 yr by Clunkclick

Just tried to download IE9 for my XP powered laptop - no go.

And the reason:-

http://www.techdream...p/3816-20100318

Anyway, got it installed on the desktop. The browser works much faster now - or normally, as users of Firefox would say.

Postscript

Failed the Acid 3 test.

I'll try Chrome or safari on the laptop.

Nick

The only reason I have IE installed is to test web apps I write, to ensure they are viewable.. Don't use it for anything else.

How stupid! Most business machines are running XP - as Microsoft made such a stuff up of Vista and people have yet to switch to Win 7. I would stick with Firefox anyway, I can't remember the last time I opened IE at home!

Firefox 4 for me:

http://download.cnet.com/8301-2007_4-20047314-12.html

+1 for Firefox 4, lightning fast, although the interface takes a bit of getting used to, as they moved interface stuff to top right hand corner for some reason.

Firefox 4 looks a lot like Chrome. Taking me a while to get used to having the bookmars button on the right hand side

It's easy to put the bookmark button back where it belongs:

view > toolbars > customize and then drag and drop.

On a netbook it's a good thing that you get a menu button when you turn off the menubar, without having to find an extra add-on.

XP is nearly 10 years old, in supporting IE9 on Vista and 7 only they can dump a lot of the compatibilty stuff they had to put in that made IE8 work in XP and reduce the memory requirements of the browser.

at work we are rapidly dumping XP and rolling out 7 in its place, XP is just so dated now and we'll be glad to see the back of it here because more and more hardware requires a minimum of Vista or 7 to even install.

Ho ho

Its another microsoft ploy to get people off xp....

"IE9 will not be supported by Windows XP," said Microsoft's web technical evangelist Giorgio Sardo, speaking at the Web 2.0 Expo. "We are building all of HTML5 with hardware acceleration. We need a modern OS to do this."

The comments didn't sit well with Microsoft's browser rivals, who pointed out that by not supporting Windows XP, Microsoft was barring a large portion of people from enjoying the benefits of HTML5, including offline storage and plugin-free media playback.

"Opera and Mozilla and on Chrome we're all doing hardware acceleration, and all of us are doing it on XP," argued Google Chrome developer Alex Russell.

His concerns were echoed by Doug Crockford, a senior JavaScript architect at Yahoo, who offered a straight forward solution to the problem. "I recommend all users of XP migrate to another browser that's not IE," he said.

How stupid! Most business machines are running XP - as Microsoft made such a stuff up of Vista and people have yet to switch to Win 7. I would stick with Firefox anyway, I can't remember the last time I opened IE at home!

XP is dead and much as I used to use it a lot, a combination of Linux and 7 is now what is used.

So what if a new browser doesn't support an old OS. That OS is missing features, which would need to be coded into IE9 for an XP version.

Nobody complained this much when apple slaughtered their PPC machines with no new OS, or FF stopped working on older versions of OS X etc.

Good points. Thing is the NHS seem to be a little way behind in terms of software! Especially without the Enterprise agreement they did have with Microsoft! :(