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Re:Is IE9 a modern browser? by alanh on Tuesday February 15, 2011 @05:59PM (#2223792)
Stop the presses. Apple software like iTunes and Safari STILL RUN ON WINDOWS XP. The difference is in how many users are on XP (50%?) vs. older than OS X Leopard (low single digits).

Related: Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and Chrome Frame are all more advanced than IE9 and all run on Windows XP.

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Re:Is IE9 a modern browser? by pedrocr on Tuesday February 15, 2011 @06:34PM (#2223961)
>The difference is in how many users are on XP (50%?) vs. older than OS X Leopard (low single digits).

And the reason for that is probably that Microsoft keeps so much backwards compatibility that the cost of not upgrading the OS is much lower than on OSX.

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