Google is ending support for IE 8 @ AskWoody

Google is ending support for IE 8

Posted on November 30, 2012 at 20:43 CST by woody • Comment in the Forums

… and if you have Windows XP, IE 8 is the latest version that’ll run.

EP dropped this note:

It looks like Google will be ending support for IE8 for some of their stuff. read the following articles:

http://www.zdnet.com/google-apps-pulls-plug-on-ie-8-windows-xp-left-out-in-the-cold-7000004305/

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9231316/Google_to_drop_support_for_IE8_on_Nov._15

http://googleappsupdates.blogspot.com/2012/09/supporting-modern-browsers-internet.html

http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/14/google-apps-says-goodbye-to-internet-explorer-pulls-support-for-the-browser/

http://www.geek.com/articles/news/gmail-google-docs-and-more-dropping-support-for-ie8-this-year-20120918/

http://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=33864

even a close friend who has a GMail account, is seeing a warning message when he signs in to his Gmail account through Internet Explorer 8 under Windows XP that he is using an “unsupported” browser and that he should upgrade his web browser. ouch.

I should tell my friend to either upgrade to Windows 7 and install IE9 or IE10 OR use the latest version of either Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome on his XP computer

Good advice.

Windows News Google, Internet Explorer 8

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