Re: Why MS Won't Retire Browsers -- was: Interntet Explorer 8 beater 2

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---- Micah Gersten <micah@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
> The problem is that if you're running on older hardware, IE7 might be
> too CPU intensive to run correctly.  That's why MS won't set Sunset
> Dates for an old browser.  They instead set the Sunset Dates for the OS
> and that's how they make things out of date.  They say upgrade the OS. 
> Matter of philosophy.  The problem is that the new OS won't run on the
> old hardware and costs lots of money so people don't upgrade.  Remember,
> MS is for profit.  If you can just upgrade your browser, they don't make
> any money.  If you upgrade your OS, they do.

My last upgrade was from XP to Ubuntu.  :)

And believe it or not, if you want to test your test on Ubuntu there is an IE for it or you can just WINE things.  :)

Wolf

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