Microsoft is killing off the Internet Explorer brand

Re:Microsoft is killing off the Internet Explorer brand by grandalf on Tuesday March 17, 2015 @06:56PM (#9222234)

Exactly. At least it may not be worth $200. Apple's $25 or free updates are much more reasonable and get people to actually stay current. The older hardware slows down gradually and people warm up to the idea of faster/newer hardware gradually, rather than thinking that the new OS broke their working computer.

Please, Microsoft, switch to an evergreen OS model like Apple has.

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Re:Microsoft is killing off the Internet Explorer brand by zemoo on Tuesday March 17, 2015 @07:19PM (#9222328)

Windows has moved to an evergreen OS model: http://blogs.windows.com/bloggingwindows/2015/01/21/the-next...

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Re:Microsoft is killing off the Internet Explorer brand by throwawaymsft on Tuesday March 17, 2015 @08:11PM (#9222598)

But it's for people running 7 and up, for one year. The 70% of Chinese users on XP aren't going to see the benefit of this.

(Why didn't Microsoft make it for XP too? They want to squeeze that last sale out of people. They don't realize the greater threat is people leaving their platform entirely.)

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Re:Microsoft is killing off the Internet Explorer brand by seanmcdirmid on Tuesday March 17, 2015 @08:43PM (#9222776)

Even Google doesn't support new versions of Chrome on XP anymore. There is just a point where the OS is outdated.

Not many people run XP in China anymore. Maybe some netcafes with pirated versions that they don't want to upgrade. Its really been a while since I've seen anyone run XP in Beijing.

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Re:Microsoft is killing off the Internet Explorer brand by yuhong on Wednesday March 18, 2015 @03:32AM (#9224079)

They still support Chrome on even XP SP2. What is frustrating is the users running XP SP2 (not even SP3) in Japan and France for example.

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Re:Microsoft is killing off the Internet Explorer brand by seanmcdirmid on Wednesday March 18, 2015 @06:46AM (#9224592)

I stand corrected:

http://chrome.blogspot.com/2013/10/extending-chrome-support-...

Until next month, anyways :)

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Re:Microsoft is killing off the Internet Explorer brand by yuhong on Thursday March 19, 2015 @12:26AM (#9230197)

Probably until the end of the year at least.

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Re:Microsoft is killing off the Internet Explorer brand by joshuapants on Tuesday March 17, 2015 @09:43PM (#9223054)

How many of the 70% of Chinese users on XP were using licensed copies in the first place?

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Re:Microsoft is killing off the Internet Explorer brand by grandalf on Tuesday March 17, 2015 @08:21PM (#9222653)

excellent point

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Re:Microsoft is killing off the Internet Explorer brand by grandalf on Tuesday March 17, 2015 @07:56PM (#9222525)

Oh wow that is great news!

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