Windows 8 beta (Consumer Preview)

[HotelUser]

In the past seven months IE dropped 6 percentage points, Chrome gained 6.5 percentage points. IE is currently 8 percentage points ahead of Chrome. Do the math.

IE 8 just needs to die, sooner the better!

[Chippiewill]

Let's focus on IE6 first mmmk?
http://www.ie6countdown.com

[peteyt]

Let's focus on IE6 first mmmk?
http://www.ie6countdown.com

Exactly. We need to get rid of ie6 and make our way upwards. Isn't microsoft going to attempt to force people to change soon?

[Recursion]

Exactly. We need to get rid of ie6 and make our way upwards. Isn't microsoft going to attempt to force people to change soon?

They did, IE6 only runs on XP and below. XP is about to become EOL for security updates.

[peteyt]

They did, IE6 only runs on XP and below. XP is about to become EOL for security updates.

I just think they have danced around stuff for too long. People won't change until they are forced to. Its funny but I bet the people who refuse to move to something more secure and up to date are the ones who would then complain when the thing they where told to leave due to security reasons causes them harm. From what I heard support will be around till 2014. Why? Why not basically say we are now removing xp, ie6, people where warned. It is interesting that 3 years later Vista's support ends - xp has had the biggest run.

[Recursion]

I just think they have danced around stuff for too long. People won't change until they are forced to. Its funny but I bet the people who refuse to move to something more secure and up to date are the ones who would then complain when the thing they where told to leave due to security reasons causes them harm. From what I heard support will be around till 2014. Why? Why not basically say we are now removing xp, ie6, people where warned. It is interesting that 3 years later Vista's support ends - xp has had the biggest run.

Because enterprise users don't want to upgrade yet, it might cost Enterprise users ££££££ to upgrade or rewrite their software to be compatible with W7, so this gave them more time to get it done.

[xxMATTGxx]

Tomorrow is the day!

[Chippiewill]

I just think they have danced around stuff for too long. People won't change until they are forced to. Its funny but I bet the people who refuse to move to something more secure and up to date are the ones who would then complain when the thing they where told to leave due to security reasons causes them harm. From what I heard support will be around till 2014. Why? Why not basically say we are now removing xp, ie6, people where warned. It is interesting that 3 years later Vista's support ends - xp has had the biggest run.

Microsoft is so popular in enterprise in comparison to Mac etc. due to their tremendous long term support and backwards compatibility.

Tomorrow is the day!

[Stephen!]

2PM GMT Tomorrow lads!

[Catchy]

I used the developer preview for a few days, it was really buggy as you can imagine. I liked it but I don't think I'll be rushing to upgrade when it comes out due to the fact all I really use on my laptop is Google Chrome and VLC so I don't see the point in me upgrading once it's out.

I love the metro design though and I think Windows should be really proud that they've managed to actually make it look half presentable.