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No IE7 For 2k, Now In Extended Service

Posted by Zonk on from the not-quite-do-it-yourself-but-close dept.

Yankovic writes "Looks like MS will not support IE7 on Windows 2000. 'It should be no surprise that we do not plan on releasing IE7 for Windows 2000... [S]ome of the security work in IE7 relies on operating system functionality in XPSP2 that is non-trivial to port back to Windows 2000.' While security fixes will still be available until 2010, I guess that means the only browsers with tabs for W2k will be Opera and Firefox." All the details about an MS product's fall into senility available at the lifecycle page.

3 of 469 comments (clear)

  1. Re:What is this obsession with tabs? by Meshach · · Score: 4, Informative

    There are lots of ways to have tabs in earlier versions of IE without upgrading the operating system

    SlimBrowser is on that integrates into IE seamlessly and gives you tabs, pop up blacking, and all the other "obvious to everyone but ms" features

    Of course the better alternative is still available

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    "Maybe this world is another planet's hell"
    Aldous Huxley
  2. Re:Sounds like by cpereda_yahoo.com · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://www.google.com/search?lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8 &q=USB%20for%20NT%204.0

  3. Re:One More Reason to Keep Win2K by drsmithy · · Score: 4, Informative
    A company that intentionally breaks compatibility (i.e. MS) deserves a lot more complaints about supporting their older products than most companies.

    Except they don't. Microsoft has one of the best track records in the business for backwards compatibility. Heck, 90% of their platform problems come from their overriding desire to provide legacy support.