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by mynameisvlad 4792 days ago
Doesn't shock me. They're one of the biggest proponents of trying to get people to update their browsers. They created http://www.ie6countdown.com/ after all.

It's also probably near impossible to get their current site working on IE5, and to make a completely separate site just for them (and it's a really really small percentage of worldwide users) would be highly cost prohibitive.
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udp 4792 days ago
> They're one of the biggest proponents of trying to get people to update their browsers.

Oh, so that's why they wanted my grandma to buy a new version of Windows (and a new computer to meet the system requirements) just to update Internet Explorer.

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mynameisvlad 4791 days ago
Windows XP supports up to IE8, Vista IE9 and 7 IE10. There's only so much you can do when an OS is on life support, and making sacrifices just to give an OS another version of IE is just stupid.
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udp 4783 days ago
The very latest versions of Firefox and Chrome don't seem to have a problem supporting older versions of Windows.

Can you tell me more about these sacrifices that would have to be made? I'm genuinely interested.

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