No IE 10 for Vista!

Which is great. I like IE too although I prefer IE8's UI as it looks less like a piece of Lego contraption (but that's another story) but stating that a browser is collecting all your personal information and will use it against you is a bit far fetched. It has been known for ages that any such function isn't entirely as described and is used for various services around the web and can very easily be turned off in Options but most of them are handy anyway so no need.

As for FF's memory leaking....what memory leaking :p
 
Shame for Vista users, but IE9 has righted so much of what was wrong about Internet Explorer as long as they still get security updates for years to come it's not really that big of a deal.
 
Mine's been open at work since this morning and is at 252MB of RAM with various tabs and extensions within tabs...Win7x64 Sp1 as well on a fairly low spec HP Compaq PC (2GB RAM C2D).

Same story on my Home PC and the media PC and the laptop and the various other PCs around the house.

All 3 major browsers share a similar trend in RAM usage I have found on all the machines I use daily.
 
Must admit, that was a bit of a freak occurrence. Its been fine the rest of the time. But the memory leak still seems to rear its head - albeit far less frequently in my experience.
 
Sounds good to me. Vista users still have IE9 and IE10 is developed to take advantage of the current/future O/S and the latest hardware without the bloatware for supporting older O/S.
 
robinbredin said:
Win 7 uses the Vista kernel, so how are they going to stop Vista users using IE10. As a stand a lone, can it be copied across to Vista.:confused:
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I am pondering the same thing.
I am somewhat vexed, under the hod, is 7 that dfferent to vista? i thought it was a better and optimised version, as in missing billions of lines of unnecessary slowdown code.
I didn't realise it was that overly different.
 
I talked to a Microsoft Rep a few months ago. He said, "Vista? What's that? XP and 7 are the only operating systems we've made in the last 10 years". So yeah, even if there was only a couple of extra lines of code needed for IE10 to run on Vista, I'm not sure they would write them.
 
I wouldn't even expect it to be a technical issue, surely there main intention is to get people using newer versions of Windows and people using older Windows versions will get a worse browsing experience or are using a competing browser on that platform
 
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