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A comment on Google’s Jaw-Dropping Sponsored Post Campaign For Chrome. Parent comment

Re:Google’s Jaw-Dropping Sponsored Post Campaign For Chrome by sliverstorm on Monday January 02, 2012 @10:07PM (#3418437)
Microsoft moves way to slowly and they keep dropping support for older OS's

Gee, I wonder why they move so slowly. Do you think it could have something to do with trying to support so many old OS's?

I mean, really. Your cake. You can't have it and eat it.

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Re:Google’s Jaw-Dropping Sponsored Post Campaign For Chrome by Zirro on Monday January 02, 2012 @10:12PM (#3418457)
That argument would work unless the competitors were supporting the same old OS-versions too, plus (in most cases) at least two other platforms.
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Re:Google’s Jaw-Dropping Sponsored Post Campaign For Chrome by melling on Monday January 02, 2012 @10:19PM (#3418473)
Firefox and Chrome get updated every 6 weeks. Microsoft pretty much ignored the browser until Chrome and Firefox started gaining market share.

IE6 - 2001

IE7 - 2006

IE8 - 2009

IE9 - 2011

IE10 - 2012

They are picking up the pace because there's so much competition. Unfortunately, it's not quick enough.

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