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Microsoft Releases Internet Explorer 10 For Windows 7

Posted by timothy on from the double-digits-on-the-prime dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 7 is out. Windows 8 may suck but now you can at least enjoy (most of) that version's Internet Explorer. IE10 for Win7, originally not planned, has seen the light of day after all — four months after it debuted in Windows 8. It is available via Windows Update as an optional update; however, if you've already installed a pre-release version, it will be updated automatically as an 'important' update. IE10 on Win7 requires a platform update to bring some Windows 8 APIs to the more mature Windows, and it will not feature embedded Adobe Flash as the Windows 8 version does (use the plug-in version from Adobe, as usual, instead)."

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  1. I didn't know IE was still maintained by themoneyish · · Score: -1, Troll

    Actually, I didn't know if Microsoft was still around. I thought they died off long ago.

  2. Re:Can we have the story with the additude? by jellomizer · · Score: -1, Troll

    Windows 3.1- No Don't give me a GUI I want my DOS and Command Line interface. If I wanted windows I would have gotten a Mac.
    Windows 95 - After all that hype it is mostly still windows 3.1 execpt that it boots up with a graphical interface and you don't need to put win in autoexec.bat. It still trails Linux in terms of multi-tasking and stability.
    Windows 98 - How dare they embed IE into the OS. No one wants to use their web browser to navigate their files.
    Windows ME - Yea this was just crap.
    Windows 2000 - What you switching us to the NT Kernel, what about all my DOS games they will be useless.
    Windows XP - The UI it looks like it is from Phisher Price. And even more forcing us to use the NT kernel. We want to keep our old DOS apps running
    Windows Vista - Look at that New UI, More EYE CANDY, how am I going to to work when I don't have my Start
    Windows 7 - You still kept the Windows Vista UI that I hated.
    Windows 8 - They changed the start menu so it looks different again, why can't we stay at XP?

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  3. Re:This is why people hate MS by thetoadwarrior · · Score: -1, Troll

    Wrong. Apple doesn't artifically limit it. They make it clear they move on and don't support old stuff because that's what they want to do not because it's physically impossibe.