What's your expectation? That IE < 9 will sink to a number that you won't have to support? That clearly isn't going to happen for many, many, many years. Microsoft could file chapter 7, today, and you'd still see IE as a large-enough-to-matter browser share for years to come.

The really interesting piece of information is the percentage of clients that support advanced CSS3 attributes without needing any kind of polyfills, and have faster Javascript engines. That percentage appears to be going up very, very quickly. We've stopped designing for "IE first", and instead are targeting browser capabilities. Modernizr for development, then extremely targeted Javascript and CSS for production.

Most of all, I'm happiest the world is moving forward to recognizing and rewarding more modern and updated browsers with their usage, whatever those might be.

IE wise, I'm a fan of not having to code around the weak links. Currently, I use enough standard libraries not to worry about IE too much. Still, between different IE versions, I even have to deal with bugs only specific to 6,7,8 which for some reason don't show up in other browsers.

The ability to use cutting edge stuff in modern browsers does get limited programming around the weakest links (IE) instead of the strongest.

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Why not? Google doesn't support IE7 for Google Apps. They claim that they will only support the two most recent versions of any browser. Should we expect that they will drop IE8 support once IE10 ships? For personal use, people need to be nudged to use a modern browser. The average person probably just uses the browser that ships with their machine and doesn't even know to upgrade.

Depends how many XP users there will be left, the '2 versions' nonsense is just that, nonsense.

XP users can only use IE8 however. So XP market share and the number of their clients still using XP will drive what Google does and does not support.

FYI, I estimated 5 years when I was talking on reddit about how IE damaged XHTML, and by then XHTML was already 10 years old.

No, it's Google and their monopoly of your privacy.

Please. All that Google paranoia belongs in the same thread as UFOs and bigfoot. Let Google and Facebook's linguistic algorithms scan my every email. So long as there's no human doing it, I could care less.

Google feels no pity, no fear, no pain, and it will not stop, ever ....

Oh, wrong movie.

I would like things better if I were the only anything scanning my emails, but we all know that will never happen.

I could never deal with that much spam.

So has anyone found any privacy-compromising code in the open-source Chromium? Nope?

What about Firefox or Opera(which are mostly Google-funded now)? Nope?

Anyone? Bueller?

Yep - you know it's the "end of days" when you look back on Microsoft as the hey-day of freedom in computers!

See the shiny aluminium laptop - don't worry about not being allowed to own the stuff on it - look shiny.

We have a funny logo some days - just enter your kid's details here for marketing purposes - look funny logo.

Give me a break. You're just making things up. By all means wear your tinfoil hat and keep your pitchfork sharp, but try to keep at least one toe on the ground.