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Google Kills Apps Support For Internet Explorer 8

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. FUCK THEM IN THEIR ASSHOLES by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Good. Fuck IE.

  2. Re:Lucky bastards by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    XP runs just fine thank you very much! Why change for the sake of change. Screw you GOOGLE! Great now I have to migrate hundreds of users to hotmail since that still supports IE 6 and I do not have time supporting users complaining that their gmail wont work.

    XP runs fine and perfectly well on computers and it makes no sense to upgrade such a great system for eye candy. There is no reason why IE 9 can't work on XP nor why IE 8 can't do everything other browsers can do.

    Lazy just plain lazy. IE 8 is something still so cutting edge and new that companies are spending 10s of millions upgrading from IE 6 as I write this! You are telling them they can't even support the browser they spend 10 million porting their apps to?!! WTF

    Google is out of touch