Bye-Bye Internet Explorer - Microsoft to cancel Internet Explorer

[Nal]

When it comes out in the next update for w10 preview I'll make sure to have it run through a couple of html5 tests for ya

thanks :D

[Ad Bot]

[Blockzillahead]

My IT teacher told us about this and literally everyone in the classroom cheered.
Hopefully this spartan browser is really good and it fixes a lot of the problems people had with internet explorer in the first place.

people still dont realize that IE has minimal problems, if any. its just a browser that isnt as useless feature rich as chrome or firefox or all those other copy/paste versions of firefox or long forgotten tinfoil hat wearing browsers. previous IE versions were problematic but people formed a negative image on it from those previous versions and refuse to look at IE now in a positive way so microsoft just dropped it long ago. this is why they are making a new browser. its so easy to just remake IE but because the name has such a poor reputation the safest thing to do here is make a new thing entirely.

[Tudoreleu]

Microsoft is simply discontinuing support for Chrome.

that's... handicapped

[Foxscotch]

that's... handicapped

from a business perspective, not really

[Tudoreleu]

doesn't it mean sites that already use silverlight will eventually become incompatible with chrome

[Nonnel]

doesn't it mean sites that already use silverlight will eventually become incompatible with chrome

which would make people switch to......

[Foxscotch]

actually, apparently kochieboy was kinda right, and just didn't word it well
and adrenaline was just wrong

chrome is the one making a change, not microsoft
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2391616/chrome-40-marks-the-beginning-of-the-end-for-microsoft-silverlight
they're not just getting rid of silverlight, because they can't, and even if they could they have no reason to specifically disallow that plugin
but they are getting rid of support for something silverlight relies on

dunno if microsoft is going to update silverlight to be compatible with it, but if they choose not to

which would make people switch to......

that's probably why

[SWAT One]

from a business perspective, not really

How so?  By doing this, it just makes people want to buy a different OS.  When the Barnes & Noble Nook hit the market, almost everyone rooted it and installed Android OS, but even though this wasn't the intended purpose, it became popular to buy the Nook just for rooting it, thus, it had an unintended market, and Barnes & Noble continued selling them for this reason.

In the same way, if Microsoft were to not support Chrome, it would have the effect of forcing users to either use Spartan, find a substitute (Firefox, etc.), or to buy a different OS entirely.  With all of these cases, Microsoft loses a portion of its market.  As it is now, Microsoft also can't afford to lose any of its market because of a fair amount of disappointment that users had in Windows 8.

[Foxscotch]

How so?  By doing this, it just makes people want to buy a different OS.

uh... no? I don't think people would replace their entire operating system because they couldn't use certain websites on one browser...

even with your misunderstanding, not being able to use one browser still wouldn't make most people abandon an OS that they paid for in favor of Linux, a far less user-friendly set of operating systems. they'd be even less likely to buy an entire very expensive computer just to use OS X

and I'm just being pedantic here, but

it would have the effect of forcing users to either use Spartan, find a substitute (Firefox, etc.), or to buy a different OS entirely.  With all of these cases, Microsoft loses a portion of its market.

if people moved from Chrome to any other browser, Microsoft wouldn't lose anytihng. especially not if they moved to "Spartan"

[SWAT One]

This was no misunderstanding.  It would still cause some users to buy a different OS.  Whether it is a minute amount or not, they will still lose a user base.  The low price of the Chromebook, for example, could also mean that people could buy them without need for an expensive OS.  There were quite a few people who did this when Windows 8 went out.

No matter how many people leave for a different OS, or buy another, they are still disappointing their market and are supporting their competitors.

[Foxscotch]

This was no misunderstanding.

there was definitely a misunderstanding. adrenaline meant that microsoft would no longer support the silverlight plugin for chrome

microsoft can't drop support for the chrome web browser in Windows. it's a program just like any other

[SWAT One]

OOOooh got it.

[Im_AFK]

microsoft is also developing a new browser, nicknamed spartan for now

spartans never die

[pefu19]

the google chrome master race stays unaffected so thats all that matters

[Adrenaline]

the google chrome master race stays unaffected so thats all that matters

opera master race nerd