Bye Bye Internet Explorer

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This one's either a brick house or a shooting gallery regarding security but I'm sure you'll appreciate the interface. I was surprised it's still alive when I looked it up again a few days ago - I discovered it circa Firefox 2.0 beta!
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Not like I care about IE, I've stopped using it 10 years ago and switched to Mozilla Firefox, and recently I've also been using Chrome, but Firefox is still my favorite.

Good riddance..

I hate to disappoint you guys.
Microsoft has already announced IE 11 for Windows 10, due to demand from businesses.
It will exist alongside SPARTAN.

Many major corporations and businesses aren't ready to overhaul their sites and internal apps to run on non IE browsers.
This is due to costs and backwards compatibility with older versions of Windows.

Also IE still holds the majority of the global browser share at ~60%+

I still see Win XP on PCs everywhere I go, I'm amazed @ how cheap these doctors, dentists, business people are.

Just watch, Project Spartan will basically become the new browser everyone hates, and since they'll still be including IE11 for legacy stuff, ignorant users who don't use other browsers are probably going to keep using it, long after it stops receiving support.

Speaking of which, I was helping my landlord with his computer earlier on, and he still uses IE 9, on Vista Basic, no less. I'm going to help him upgrade to a better OS tomorrow, and maybe show him the benefits of an alternative browser.

Been using Firefox and prefer it, as IE was not very good.

But the tear I'll shed is merely one of nostalgia, as it was the first browser I ever used when I first got on a computer at the local library, back in something like 1998. As an adult whose generation missed out on school computer usage, I was a total newbie to the internet and IE was my browser for the first few years.

I don't miss it but "thank you and goodnight," for easing me into the world wide web, lol.

It's more due to Windows XP being fully compatible with Windows 9x software.

Windows Vista and up aren't natively compatible with Windows 9x software, thus forcing emulation for a lot of it.
Many of the programs businesses use aren't compatible with the Windows Vista and up (they all run on the Windows 6.x kernel).

They won't upgrade until their forced too, which probably occur with Windows 10 or 11.
It could cost businesses billions to port and optimize their applications and software to any Windows running the 6.x kernel.

It's just that much cheaper to continue to use Windows XP 32-bit.

As long as Microsoft doesn't revert back to their old tactics, SPARTAN won't have near the toxic branding as IE.
Though IE 11 will remain a separate browser from SPARTAN, due to legacy issues.

I'd almost forgotten it existed. I never liked it. But it's nice to have it there as an emergency backup browser in case Firefox ever goes horribly wrong.

Do you have Firefox 36 installed?

I've got 35 on this laptop, I tried 36 but it broke Video Download Helper 4.9 and I didn't like 5.0. Why do you ask?

Firefox 36 is bug ridden to the core... that's why I went back to Safari.

Hope 37 is better. I've messed with 36 but the only bad thing I noticed was that it broke Video Download Helper. That was enough to make me roll back to 35. They eventually upgraded VDH to cope with 36, and it seems to work, but I hate change so I rolled back to 35 and I'm happy enough with it.

Mozilla Firefox v37.0.1 is the current download version.

Did it actually fix stuff?

I dunno. I amn't a code head. No noticeable difference in my opinion.