Internet Explorer 9

Windows XP will not be supported for Internet Explorer 9. "So what?" many say. Well, that is a big deal when we have a mandate at work to keep our machines as high security as possible and all our internet machines are running XP. The cost of upgrading would be prohibitive.  We don't even have that many computers on the internet at my company.

The most likely outcome is to finally buy computers with a more recent vintage of Windows for internet boxes and not just cull the dregs, slap XP on them and plug them in to the net. "Is that old lab machine on fire? Then slap XP on it and use it as an internet machine." Well, maybe not.

As much as I hate being told to upgrade and better, forced to do so, I agree with Microsoft on this one. Windows XP came out in 2002 I believe. That makes it eight years old. That is like 40 in computer years. Ancient! It needs to just die and make room for DRM laden OSes that have built in death dates like Vista and Windows 7.

There comes a time where a software company can just plane not support old crap any longer. There is a reason security updates only come out every so often. It costs money to maintain software. It is also very annoying and frustrating for programmers to work on relics. It is not like Windows XP is a classic and deserves to be restored to original parts.

Internet explorer 9 will not support Linux either. No one seems worried about that.