IE Updates for XP only

microsoft has announced that they won't be integrating the security fixes/upgrades from XP SP2 into any of their older OS's. Of course they will still update sopported OS's but they are going to miss out on the extra security features. Seems like Mozilla usage is about to grow a fair bit. The figures I read estimated 49% of Windows systems are non XP, if these people haven't felt the need to upgrade by now, do you really think that they will to get extra security features. OK, MS will get some of them, but I forsee many just abandoning the insecure tools IE/OE etc and using other programs. Especially when other free programs are better than the ones you are replacing. Hey MS, how about tabbed browsing? 
Published Saturday, September 25, 2004 2:07 PM by Mark Dormer
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Tuesday, October 05, 2004 10:46 AM by Mark Dormer

# re: IE Updates for XP only

I'll NEVER use IE again or any MS product if they use Tab browsing.
Thursday, October 07, 2004 11:51 AM by Mark Dormer

# re: IE Updates for XP only

I bet MS a worried about that

It's funny how we can get into ruts and illogically don't want to change.

It happens to me, better the devil you know I guess

I was resistant to Firefox, but having used it and especially a couple of the plug ins that let me recall the state of the pages/tabs, I love it.