Google Twists Knife In IE6, Pulls Support From Docs And Site



This has not been the greatest start to the year for Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser. Days after news of the latest security flaw …

…Microsoft has delivered. It is called IE7 and IE8.
Why are we not scolding apple for not continuing to update OS/X on PowerPC? Is it not the same situation? Developers will have to write different code to make the same app work on both products? As someone who has a 4 year old iMac, I am not too happy with the fact that I can not run Adobe’s CS4 on it. But then I remember that it is a product that is old and the technology and architecture has evolved.
I find it funny that people are always pointing their fingers at Microsoft for this. Every technology company has done this in the past. The difference is that Microsoft has chosen to take the path of not forcing users to upgrade. Companies such as Apple require users to upgrade to the latest and greatest version of their software. Try to use the latest version of the iPhone OS with iTunes 7. You can’t and good luck trying to do so. Try to downgrade OS/X after applying an update. Again, good luck. The average user can not do so regardless of the issues that…

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Google Twists Knife In IE6, Pulls Support From Docs And Site

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