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One of the elements of compliance requires that companies must 'Ensure that all system components and software are protected from known vulnerabilities by having the latest vendor-supplied security patches installed. ComplianceĪll companies that accept any form of payment, whether it be debit/credit cards, point of sale, pre-paid cards or other forms of payment, through their websites will be required by law to comply with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS). In terms of our own approach there are numerous reasons why we no longer support IE8. If there is a super-cool feature that is super-useful for users, but 20% of browsers don't use it, many companies just don't try to implement it at all, because they know at the very early stage that it would mean additional development cost, hacky workarounds, making the app potentially unstable, and so on.' As Richter told Computerworld in 2013 - 'It's not about the time itself, it's more about limiting the features available to users. It's not simply just down to cost and time though, some developers are also choosing not to include certain features as they know how difficult it will be to implement in this ancient browser. From a development point of view, particularly in the responsive era, this means it's going to take longer to build and subsequently it's going to cost more. Conversely, Apple doesn't support Flash on their iPhones or iPads. One of the issues we see regularly with IE8 is that it doesn't support HTML5 video, instead depending on Flash. Can we really expect them to continue to cope with font rendering issues, max-width image bugs and FOUC instances for 6 more years? Dropping support for IE8

#Internet explorer 8 xp windows 7

Officially, Microsoft will continue with security updates for IE8 until 2020 when support for Windows 7 is withdrawn which means that theoretically front end developers will have to deal with IE8's unique anomalies for another 6 years. Now, whilst Josef Richter's famous Internet Explorer 8 Countdown is perhaps a little out of date (Statcounter has IE8's global market share at just 4.31%), there is no denying that the death knell may now not be too far away. 'If you experience a technical problem connecting to Office 365 from Internet Explorer 8 after 8 April 2014, Microsoft Customer Support and Service may need you to reproduce the problem on a supported browser” Internet Explorer 8 users will not be blocked from connecting to Office 365 after 8 April 2014 however, Internet Explorer 8 users should expect slower performance with Office 365’s Outlook Web App and other Office Web Apps' 'Modern versions of Internet Explorer offer faster web browsing, integrated spell-checking, improved security, and more. “Office 365 will no longer support Internet Explorer 8 after 8 April 2014' Whilst Microsoft did not directly state their intention to also withdraw support for IE8 at the same time it is clear from their statement that this is a distinct possibility in the near future. It seems as though we've been reading about the imminent death of IE8 continuously now for nearly 2 years never more so since they announced their intention to withdraw support for Windows XP in April of 2014.

#Internet explorer 8 xp upgrade

IE8 is the last Microsoft browser to run on Windows XP and users are unable to upgrade to any version higher. It's fair to say that XP was pretty state of the art, though not without the inevitable teething problems, but now, in technological terms, it might as well have happened in the Mesoproterozoic era. October 2001 was the date that Windows XP was launched, Microsoft's personal computer operating system specifically intended for mainstream consumer use. 'Social Media' was yet to take the world by storm.

Zuckerberg was still at High School, while Dorsey, Williams, Stone and Glass (Twitter's creators, not a Cornish firm of solicitors) were still 5 years away from launching the microblogging site. I can guarantee that you weren't vacantly staring at Facebook, Twitter or Instagram. Were you playing Snake on your indestructible Nokia 3310?

#Internet explorer 8 xp portable

Perhaps you were confusedly fiddling with your 1st gen Apple iPod wondering how on earth all that music could be stored in one place? It wasn't that long ago that you were carrying around a portable CD player the size of Alan Partridge's Travel Tavern dinner plate.