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Internet Explorer 10 Drops Vista Support

Posted by timothy on from the that-was-quick dept.

Pigskin-Referee writes "This week at Microsoft's MIX11 Web developer conference, the company surprised many by making a pre-release version of Internet Explorer 10 available — less than a month after IE9 came out in its final form. But another surprise was uncovered by Computerworld's Gregg Keizer: the next IE won't run on any OS before Windows 7, including Vista. Microsoft took some heat when it came out that Internet Explorer 9 would leave millions of Windows XP users in the lurch, as the new browser would only run on Windows 7 and Vista. But the company confirmed that IE10 won't even run on Vista."

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  1. Internet Explorer? I think I've heard of it... by MasterOfGoingFaster · · Score: 5, Funny

    Uh... Internet Explorer? Oh yeah - that thing I use to load Chrome, Firefox and Opera on a new PC?

    Why? Does it do something else i'm unaware of?

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  2. Re:Slashdot's Microsoft Icon by erroneus · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'd vote for a chair flying through a broken window!

  3. Re:Finally! This is Great! by QuietLagoon · · Score: 3, Funny

    -1 mod points, you used "Microsoft" and "innovation" in the same sentence.

  4. Re:This is the best thing they can do. by wmbetts · · Score: 4, Funny

    Because 2011 is the year of the Linux desktop!

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