No IE7 For 2k, Now In Extended Service

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.

Comments

Re:Well thats going to be a big boost for firefox

[spectecjr]

Most normal users never upgrades their OS and a lot of geeks prefer 2k to XP.

Of course, those geeks tend to be the ones too stupid to figure out how to set the style into "Classic" mode. XP doesn't have to look like a fisherprice toy - and I don't know of any other reasons why one would want to run Windows 2000 instead of XP. Except maybe activation (oh, boo hoo).

Re:Winning Combination

[veediot]

I am so sick of all this: "Look at what Microsoft is able to do because they are a monopoly!" No, they are not a monopoly. Does there exist another operating system in direct competition with Windows. Why, yes, there are several... Many that even run that on the same exact hardware. Kind of hard to be a monopoly when you actually HAVE competitors... so stop with the anti-Microsoft BS. You are just as guilty of FUD as them.

And by the way, I am posting this from Gentoo Linux. Who would have thought it possible to have such a fine operating system with a monopoly in the market?

Interesting...

[suitepotato]

I see the /. double-standards still are going strong. The same crowd that would scream bloody murder if Linux advanced as slowly as a five year difference is whining that MS is trying to encourage upgrading from a five year old OS to one just slightly younger than that unless you count SP2 in which case it's only a year old.

For fark's sake, some of you compile new kernels more often than you change your socks and you complain about MS making you change the OS on your Win boxes. And you snap at newbies when they don't upgrage their Linux distros fast enough. "WTF?! You're still using Fedora Core 3? Why haven't you wiped it for Fedora Core 4 yet?!"

I mean really people, you're letting your irrationality show brightly here. Hatred of Microsoft over everything, especially logic.

Why don't you just whine that you have to buy a new box to use MPEG-4 with satellite? Or that you need to buy a new TV to use Cable Card? Or that Pontiac won't stick the latest and greatest model year accessories into your four year old first edition? But if Microsoft feels it too much work for too little result to backport the newest Internet Explorer, or anything on Windows for that matter, then you go ballistic.

It's hate, pure and simple. If not, then you're lying blatantly about Microsoft not mattering to you and Open Source being your mantra because you already have third-party web browsers with tabs and here you are kvetching that you can't get tabs with IE, the browser you supposedly hate, despise, and never use without a gun to your head.

Can we get real here? BTW, debian.org reminds me that tomorrow is supposedly the Sarge release. I wonder how many of you will gladly tear your hair out over upgrade issues, hose multiple boxes, and do so without the whining that you do over installing a new Microsoft OS every five years.