{"id":1401,"date":"2011-04-17T13:55:28","date_gmt":"2011-04-17T17:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=1401"},"modified":"2011-04-17T13:55:28","modified_gmt":"2011-04-17T17:55:28","slug":"no-xp-or-vista-users-allowed-internet-explorer-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/no-xp-or-vista-users-allowed-internet-explorer-10\/","title":{"rendered":"No XP or Vista users allowed &#8211; Internet Explorer 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/novista.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1402\" title=\"novista\" src=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/novista-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/novista-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/novista-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>One of the minor &#8220;features&#8221; Microsoft included in  the Internet Explorer 10 Platform Preview <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/microsoft\/news\/2011\/04\/first-preview-of-internet-explorer-10-arrives-with-new-features.ars\">released earlier this week<\/a> was reduced operating system  support; it will only install on Windows 7, leaving Windows XP and Windows Vista  users out in the cold. Microsoft <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/s\/article\/9215791\/Windows_Vista_No_IE10_for_you\">confirmed<\/a> to Computerworld that this was no accident, with a  spokesperson saying &#8220;Windows Vista customers have a great browsing experience  with IE9, but in building IE10 we are focused on continuing to drive the kind of  innovation that only happens when you take advantage of the ongoing improvements  in modern operating systems and modern hardware.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a claim that&#8217;s hard to make any sense of.<\/p>\n<p><!--page 1-->When the company announced that Internet Explorer 9  wouldn&#8217;t support Windows XP, the decision <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/microsoft\/news\/2010\/04\/why-microsoft-did-the-right-thing-in-ditching-xp-for-ie9.ars\">made sense<\/a>. Though it meant cutting off a large number of  Windows users, Internet Explorer 9 was written to depend heavily on Direct2D and  DirectWrite for all its hardware accelerated high-performance graphics, and on  Windows&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mandatory_Integrity_Control\">Mandatory Integrity Control<\/a> (among other things) for  security. Direct2D and DirectWrite were both introduced on Windows 7 and back  ported to Windows Vista; MIC was introduced with Windows Vista. In neither case  were the features available on Windows XP, nor even readily ported to that  operating system.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\" http:\/\/bit.ly\/fdhhXW\" target=\"_blank\">Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the minor &#8220;features&#8221; Microsoft included in the Internet Explorer 10 Platform Preview released earlier this week was reduced operating system support; it will only install on Windows 7, leaving Windows XP and Windows Vista users out in the cold. Microsoft confirmed to Computerworld that this was no accident, with a spokesperson saying &#8220;Windows Vista customers have\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/no-xp-or-vista-users-allowed-internet-explorer-10\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1402,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1401"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1404,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401\/revisions\/1404"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}