Internet Explorer 9 Will Not Support Windows XP

Posted by timothy on Friday March 19, 2010 @11:40PM from the are-you-keeping-up-with-me dept.

MojoKid writes "As it turns out, news this week is that the same features that made IE9's hardware-acceleration possible probably aren't compatible with Windows XP. Microsoft initially dodged giving a straight answer to the question of XP support but has since admitted that the new browser won't be XP-compatible when it launches. This has created a small tempest of protest from those users still using XP, but this is less of an arbitrary decision than some appear to think. It's literally impossible to port Windows Vista/Win 7-style hardware acceleration backwards to XP. Microsoft would have to either develop a workaround from scratch or create a CPU-driven 'software mode.'"

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A cartel of "financial partners, not Microsoft" by tepples · 2010-03-20 02:50 · Score: 0, Offtopic

blame your financial partners, not Microsoft
If all financial partners, not Microsoft, happen to require the use of Microsoft technologies, then with which financial partners, not Microsoft, should one deal?