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shanselman on Feb 22, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Microsoft killed my Pappy

Ya, XP doesn't update as XP is a 12 year old operating system and not supported. My Windows 7 machine just updated to IE11.

bluthru on Feb 22, 2014 [–]

Mozilla and Google offer update browsers for XP. Why can't MS do that with their own codebase?

shanselman on Feb 23, 2014 | [–]

My GUESS - They choose not to. It's a 12 year old OS. That's old.

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