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Re:The end of an era: Internet Explorer drops below 50% of W... by melling on Wednesday November 02, 2011 @12:52PM (#3187698)
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.
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Re:The end of an era: Internet Explorer drops below 50% of W... by mattmanser on Wednesday November 02, 2011 @04:54PM (#3188881)
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.

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