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

---- Micah Gersten <micah@onshore.com> 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 and that's how they make things out of date.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