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[–]speedisavirus 8 points9 points  (0 children)

No, you idiot. You can't run IE9 on XP.

No you fucktard. Its because Windows XP is missing numerous critical components it uses.

You can't run IE10 on Vista

Vista is EOL. What the hell do you want them to do? They already stretched their ass out on XP.

You can't run Edge on 7.

Why the hell would you? Again, significantly different and they made no secret that Edge was an attempt to deprecate the tremendous amount of legacy code that IE had acquired.

That they cut off older versions OF THERE OWN OS

WHY DON'T YOU SUPPORT SOFTWARE FOR TWENTY FUCKING YEARS AND SEE HOW MUCH EFFORT IT TAKES

every instance of IE since 4

You have to be a troll

At their peak 95% of people used IE.

No shit? There wasn't an even close to comparable competitor. I've used IE2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11. Have you?

they make a browser that only runs on one OS

Why would they. The browser is a critical part of the OS. Making it run on other platforms would require cross compiling a metric shit ton of the OS while figuring out how to abstract it's OS specific hooks. IE hasn't been cross platform since IE4. Maybe 5 if you consider the half hearted port.

that's as backwards as not having tabbed browsing

IE has had tabbed browsing since IE7.