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Re:Windows 8 launch date announced: October 26th by melling on Thursday July 19, 2012 @03:33AM (#4264903)
Hopefully a few hundred million XP users will upgrade. For me, it's all about Internet Explorer. If Win8 does well, IE10 will be the new minimum for html5, and it's a lot better than the previous IE's.

http://html5test.com/results/desktop.html

Most non-corporate Win7 users should get the IE10 update too. In a year IE8 usage will be in the single digits.

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Re:Windows 8 launch date announced: October 26th by riffraff on Thursday July 19, 2012 @04:16AM (#4265008)
I am not sure, what makes you think that people that didn't upgrade to windows 7 and ie9 will upgrade to windows 8 and ie10?
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Re:Windows 8 launch date announced: October 26th by fbeans on Thursday July 19, 2012 @05:24AM (#4265179)
"IE10 will be the new minimum for html5" I'm not sure what this means, but it sounds horrible, I understand IE is getting better, but it did the damage in the early years, and it burnt its bridges with so many users and developers. I cannot see this changing while MS still execute "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish".
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Re:Windows 8 launch date announced: October 26th by freehunter on Thursday July 19, 2012 @02:16PM (#4267325)
What that statement is saying is that the author believes the stable fallback on HTML5 means it will only need to degrade to the point that IE10 will render it.
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