What it means is that if you’re hanging around on XP, here’s the recommended upgrade position (this is from just last week using IE 6 in a server environment): Now of course much has been said about the close interdependencies between IE and Windows but rightly or wrongly, this is how it is. The root cause seems to be a very close knit integration between OS and browser meaning that the architecture behind newer browsers built for the Windows 7 and 8 era simply won’t play nice with the older architecture of Windows XP. Getting back to the IE 8 reference in the title of this post, here’s where the whole issue comes to a crescendo: Windows XP will not allow IE 9 or 10 to run. IE 8 and Windows XP – inseparable bedfellows I’m still pretty clear on the driver for the high prevalence of XP in China, but rightly or wrongly, 64% of 512 million internet users in one country is one hell of a lot and it’s barely changing. The rate of change in China is also barely moving that’s a 2.79% decline in the 6 months leading up to December 2012.
For example, if you’re in China you almost certainly use XP: It’s significant.īut as I’ve written before, technology habits are a very localised thing. What’s more, the current rate of decline means it will still have a strong foothold in a year from now – certainly way more than what OSX does today. This is worldwide usage by operating system and clearly XP still has a very strong foothold. How popular? 1 in 4 PCs are still running it: Let’s start with the facts despite what many people may think, Windows XP is still hugely popular. First, the facts: XP still has a massive presence Whilst “we” have been able to get away with holding onto the past until now, all that’s about to change, and Internet Explorer 8 is a key catalyst. (Let me rephrase – they were popular things!) They were also things that feel like a lifetime ago because in technology terms, they were.īut unlike Raymond and Britney, Windows XP refuses to move on (well at least unlike Raymond), in fact it has hung around until well after its due date. But so was Everybody Loves Raymond and Britney Spears. XP was a very good thing back then, no doubt about it. This was a different era, the era in which Windows XP was born. Advanced users might see 1024x768 on a 17” screen, but it wasn’t mainstream. That 800圆00 image was the typical resolution too, it was the most your common 15” CRT screen (in 4:3 aspect, of course) could display.
Websites were “Best viewed in Internet Explorer 5” and looked like this: If you had a puppy, it’s probably no longer with us. It was still the days of web 1.0 and REST was something you did when you were tired. Do you remember what you were doing in October, 2001? You weren’t watching videos on YouTube, updating your Facebook status or even using the term “social media”.
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