[as_if]

They hate IE SO much, they even made the drop a new major release.

This is what I call commitment.

[dmethvin]

Since people see jQuery as a solution for cross-browser issues, dropping some browser support is the biggest change imaginable.

[jjs]

Deprecating old-IE is the solution for cross-browser issues.

[ward]

But isn't that exactly the thing about major releases? That compatibility may be broken. See also http://semver.org/

[pbhjpbhj]

So Microsoft hate WinXP so much they made dropping support in MSIE a new major release?