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Re:After 15 months, Windows 8 has sold 100 million fewer cop... by whistlerbrk on Thursday February 13, 2014 @08:58PM (#7236359)
They actively avoided upgrading to IE-anything-above-6 as well. It's hard to draw a lot of conclusions from these articles.
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Re:After 15 months, Windows 8 has sold 100 million fewer cop... by bronson on Thursday February 13, 2014 @09:18PM (#7236418)
For good reason. IE7 was even worse than 6.
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Re:After 15 months, Windows 8 has sold 100 million fewer cop... by watty on Thursday February 13, 2014 @09:24PM (#7236443)
IE8 works on Windows XP too...
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Re:After 15 months, Windows 8 has sold 100 million fewer cop... by a3n on Thursday February 13, 2014 @10:26PM (#7236693)
And probably breaks some browser-based enterprise apps that are bug-dependent on IE6.
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