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- INTERNET EXPLORER 8 FOR WINDOWS XP PORTABLE
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Conversely, Apple doesn't support Flash on their iPhones or iPads. One of the issues we see regularly with IE8 is that it doesn't support HTML5 video, instead depending on Flash. Can we really expect them to continue to cope with font rendering issues, max-width image bugs and FOUC instances for 6 more years? Dropping support for IE8
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Officially, Microsoft will continue with security updates for IE8 until 2020 when support for Windows 7 is withdrawn which means that theoretically front end developers will have to deal with IE8's unique anomalies for another 6 years. Now, whilst Josef Richter's famous Internet Explorer 8 Countdown is perhaps a little out of date (Statcounter has IE8's global market share at just 4.31%), there is no denying that the death knell may now not be too far away. "If you experience a technical problem connecting to Office 365 from Internet Explorer 8 after 8 April 2014, Microsoft Customer Support and Service may need you to reproduce the problem on a supported browser” Internet Explorer 8 users will not be blocked from connecting to Office 365 after 8 April 2014 however, Internet Explorer 8 users should expect slower performance with Office 365’s Outlook Web App and other Office Web Apps" "Modern versions of Internet Explorer offer faster web browsing, integrated spell-checking, improved security, and more. “Office 365 will no longer support Internet Explorer 8 after 8 April 2014" Whilst Microsoft did not directly state their intention to also withdraw support for IE8 at the same time it is clear from their statement that this is a distinct possibility in the near future. It seems as though we've been reading about the imminent death of IE8 continuously now for nearly 2 years never more so since they announced their intention to withdraw support for Windows XP in April of 2014.
INTERNET EXPLORER 8 FOR WINDOWS XP UPGRADE
IE8 is the last Microsoft browser to run on Windows XP and users are unable to upgrade to any version higher. It's fair to say that XP was pretty state of the art, though not without the inevitable teething problems, but now, in technological terms, it might as well have happened in the Mesoproterozoic era. October 2001 was the date that Windows XP was launched, Microsoft's personal computer operating system specifically intended for mainstream consumer use. 'Social Media' was yet to take the world by storm. Zuckerberg was still at High School, while Dorsey, Williams, Stone and Glass (Twitter's creators, not a Cornish firm of solicitors) were still 5 years away from launching the microblogging site. I can guarantee that you weren't vacantly staring at Facebook, Twitter or Instagram. Were you playing Snake on your indestructible Nokia 3310?
INTERNET EXPLORER 8 FOR WINDOWS XP PORTABLE
Perhaps you were confusedly fiddling with your 1st gen Apple iPod wondering how on earth all that music could be stored in one place? It wasn't that long ago that you were carrying around a portable CD player the size of Alan Partridge's Travel Tavern dinner plate.
