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Let's hope Windows 10 is a big hit with PC users. Consumers trade in those old XP boxes and hundreds of millions take the free upgrade. Then maybe within 24 months lots of old IE's will fade away.

https://www.netmarketshare.com/browser-market-share.aspx?qpr...

Edge appears to be a much better browser: https://html5test.com/results/desktop.html



If they wanted to get rid of those XP boxes, they should have made the upgrade free for XP users as well.


The upgrade is not free for XP users.


That's why I said trade in those XP boxes. New hardware has gotta seem nice for them by now.


or Vista users. If you've got a Windows system that actually badly needs upgrading, you're still [not] going to pay for it.


As of January 2016, MS will only support the most recent version of IE for supported operating systems. It means IE 9 and 11, mostly.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2014/08/07/stay-up-to-dat...


Netmarketshare is a horrible source for real browser stats. Except when you want to inflate IE usage numbers, of course.


Whatever the numbers are, developers are still sweating blood supporting old versions of IE. Let's get Windows users on 10.

https://h4labs.wordpress.com/2015/07/29/why-everyone-should-...


Meh...it's not really sweating blood to support IE compared to the IE6/7 days.

But we agree that the quicker users are on W10 and Edge, the better.




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