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		oneeyedpigeon on Nov 7, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google Apps drop support for IE9 Yeah, Microsoft's failure to keep supporting XP users (who still make up a whopping third of the entire OS market, 12 years after that OS was released) is this decade's IE6-lock-in. Hopefully, most will move off IE8 onto Chrome, but I'm not holding my breath.

sounds on Nov 7, 2013 [–]

If China is any indication, XP users will end up paying not for the OS (pirate!) but for continuing support.

I would laugh if some virus writers switched sides and start offering up patches for XP. They may know the core OS better than the developers still working in Redmond by now.

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