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

Micah Gersten 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 They instead set the Sunset Dates for the OS and that's how they make things out of date.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.

Fair point but if people are using old OSes and MS want them to upgrade to a newer versin, breaking their ability to surf the web isn't a carrot, but it makes a pretty good stick. Col -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited [http://www.tribalogic.net/] Open Source: Mandriva Linux Contributor [http://www.mandriva.com/] PulseAudio Hacker [http://www.pulseaudio.org/] Trac Hacker [http://trac.edgewall.org/]