On: This is party time; Internet Explorer 8, 9 and 10 ...

[starquake]

Unfortunately this is not true:

"Beginning January 12, 2016, only the most current version of Internet Explorer available for a supported operating system will receive technical supports and security updates."

The latest Internet Explorer version that runs on Windows Vista is Internet Explorer 9. So there will still be users using that... Windows Vista will have security updates till 2020.

[gtk40 → starquake]

Versions of IE as old as 7 are still supported if you look at various embedded and server editions of Windows and their support windows.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle#gp/Microsoft-I...

[mkurz → starquake]

> Windows Vista will have security updates till 2020

This isn't true. Windows Vista EOL is April 11, 2017. See http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/lifecycle What makes you think it is 2020?

[yuhong → mkurz]

The fun thing is that Server 2008 does, and it is based on the same code as Vista.

[davidjgraph → starquake]

Indeed, Vista being EOL 11 April 2017. It does mean that IE 10 is EOL, but not 9 for another 15 months.

[tracker1 → davidjgraph]

Have they no Firefox? no Chrome?

[cpeterso → tracker1]

Chrome will drop support for Windows Vista and XP in April 2016. Firefox still supports Windows versions all the way back to XP SP2. About 14% of Firefox users still run XP!

[tracker1 → cpeterso]

Maybe it's time to stop running a 10+ year old operating system?

[nix0n → tracker1]

Maybe, maybe not.

Some people are running programs that won't work on newer versions of Windows, and they would be using XP Mode anyway.

Others just do Web stuff and Firefox is really their OS.

[diezge → tracker1]

Only those with Windows 7/8 can get the free upgrade to 10 and W7/W8 themselves aren't free, which could be a factor to some.

[totony → tracker1]

Why? It does the jobs well enough