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Google Kills Apps Support For Internet Explorer 8

Posted by timothy on Friday September 14, 2012 @04:48PM from the start-at-the-feet-and-kill-up dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Google today [Friday] announced it is discontinuing support for Internet Explorer 8 in Google Apps, including its Business, Education, and Government editions. The kill date is November 15, 2012. After that, IE8 users accessing Google Apps will see a message recommending that they upgrade their browser."

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Re:Lucky bastards by nedlohs · 2012-09-14 17:52 · Score: 5, Insightful

The codebase he supports is supposed to work with a given COBOL system.
Whereas said web crap that has to support IE6, also has to work with IE7, and IE8, and IE9, and Firefox, and Chrome, and Safari. And it has to "look good" in the recent browsers without looking like crap in IE6.