In the end, I'd highly recommend that you all learn a thing or two about IE and Windows integration, Microsoft and even computers in general, before posting fantasies like this. They've done things like this before to kill outdated products, so why swim against the tide? As for IE9 on XP, there's a reason why it doesn't support XP natively - either because it is indeed incompatible with it, or just because Microsoft doesn't want it. Clearly, anything below XP is too old and technically incompatible with IE7 and above. Second, you're really just wasting time even thinking about backporting IE to antique versions of Windows, NT or not. Plus, there may be some technical incompatibilities, who knows. The fact that IE10/11 runs on 7 but not on Vista, even though both are NT 6.X and thus fairly simmilar, should give you a clear signal that support for Vista ends soon.
While it's nice to see IE11 will eventually land on Windows 7, I highly doubt that IE12 will. No changes are made to the kernel when you update your IE.
How about we just backport IE11 to OS/360?įirst of all, stop babbling about the kernel getting replaced and bullshit like that.
