Microsoft already delivered IE10 platform preview

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Todd — Fri, 06 May 2011 22:10:55 GMT

A much better comparison would be upgrading Windows to upgrading Mac OSX Or Ubuntu, or some other OS. You'll find the an OS upgrade is always a fairly major deal, and can't be accomplished with simple patches, like you would do when upgrading software applications (like Google Chrome or Internet Explorer). In my opinion, it is always best -- as a consumer -- to upgrade to the latest version of Windows shortly after it is released. You'll see "pundits" and critics that say "wai... [ More ]

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jimmy4164 — Fri, 06 May 2011 21:59:06 GMT

In the 1st sentence of my first comment above I said, "Microsoft marketing people are very good at maintaining the perception that operating systems more than 3 years old are Ancient. It keeps people from feeling taken advantage of as they shell out $100-$200 to upgrade." If you prefer to restrict this Blog topic to IE, that's fine with me. I'll move on.<br

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Todd — Fri, 06 May 2011 19:14:25 GMT

I think you're confusing Windows upgrades with upgrades to Internet Explorer. They are completely different things. Internet Explorer upgrades are free, and happen via Windows Update. Similar to Chrome, except Chrome uses its own update program that it silently installs on your PC.

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jimmy4164 — Fri, 06 May 2011 15:16:47 GMT

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Todd — Fri, 06 May 2011 11:27:34 GMT

In technology terms, a product 3 years old IS long in the tooth -- maybe not ancient, but definitely in need of something new. Think how quickly Google Chrome gets updated: a new major version every couple months. And that's how people like it. Technology in the computer era (ever since the 1980s) has always moved at a rapid pace. It has nothing to do with Microsoft per se. It is every technology company, and if a tech company did not constantly move forward, they would be... [ More ]

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jimmy4164 — Fri, 06 May 2011 04:14:50 GMT

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jarasan — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 01:10:33 GMT

I seen that today. Thanks. As far as XP users that is probably at the home. How many Vista users? Ancient technologies, I guess a 2009 Corvette is ancient technology right?

Original Blog Entry: Microsoft already delivered IE10 platform preview

Todd — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 18:22:12 GMT

Microsoft is on a roll!

After making IE9 available for general delivery through Windows Update just in the past week, Microsoft today announced that the first platform preview of IE10 is available for download.

It usually takes up to a year from platform preview until final release, but with Microsoft's fast-paced development, perhaps it will be sooner.

Whatever the final release date, it looks like IE10 will be the version that gets released as the default browser in Windows 8 next year. Windows 8 is targeted for release in 2012, so I'm sure we'll start seeing betas later this year.

As a Web developer, I'm really happy to see Microsoft pushing strong HTML5 standards into IE, and extremely pleased with the great performance of the browser in IE9 and beyond. As more and more people transition to IE9, it will enable me to make this site even better, since more people will have access to better browser capabilities that I can exploit.

Anyone who has upgraded from IE8 to IE9 can already see the differences better-looking buttons, much faster speed, cleaner graphics (such as drop-shadows), nicer animation effects, etc. Once a majority of people are using browsers capable of these things, it will allow me to spend some more time on features that can use them.

Of course, IE9 (and all future versions of Internet Explorer) can only run on Windows Vista or better. So Windows XP users can only go as far as IE8 without resorting to a browser such as Google Chrome. (Which, by the way, I strongly recommend using instead of IE8 for all Windows XP users!)

The good news is that the most recent Web statistics show that there are now officially more Windows 7 users than Windows XP users.

Finally, Windows XP is on a fast-track decline, and I can look forward to a day without having to support ancient technologies technologies that not only make my job harder, but greatly diminish my ability to produce cutting-edge features that everyone would want.

Getting back to the IE10 announcement, here is the link to the Internet Explorer team's announcement of the IE10 platform preview. It includes a video showing some of the new features.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2011/04/12/native-html5-first-ie10-platform-preview-available-for-download.aspx

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