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Knowing the marketing engine that Microsoft is, I am wondering if their new IE9 will be supported in XP...

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Unless anyone can look into the future this is a tough question, though I'm inclined to say yes: it won't support XP – Ivo Flipse♦ Mar 12 '10 at 23:40
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I agree it's more of a guess at this point, but my educated guess says it WILL work on XP. To win the browser war Microsoft needs users - lots of users to use that browsers and the new standards and technologies it will support. Since IE only runs on Windows, Microsoft cannot afford to lose the huge base of XP users (not to mention many of those are corporate users - Microsft's bread and butter). – Traveling Tech Guy Mar 13 '10 at 1:54
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MIX 2010 next week (March 15-17) will give us more details on IE9, among other things.

Mary Jo Foley confirms (http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=5572&tag=col1;post-5572) that IE9 will NOT run on Windows XP.

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Good job on the update :-) – Ivo Flipse♦ Mar 17 '10 at 9:37
Thanks @Ivo! .... – studiohack♦ Mar 24 '10 at 16:44
Appears that Vista ended up not being supported too... :-( – Brian Knoblauch Mar 15 '11 at 15:30
really @BrianKnoblauch? can you give me a source? – studiohack♦ Mar 15 '11 at 15:32
@studiohack First, I read an article where a MS guy was saying how they ended up using Windows 7 only features to support pinning. I then went to the download page and the only available options in the dropdown was "Windows 7 32-bit" and "Windows 7 64-bit". Have you found a Vista version? If so, please let me know, I'd love to be able to try it out on my Vista box! – Brian Knoblauch Mar 15 '11 at 15:35
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I tried to research this for you but it looks like there is not enough information about Internet Explorer 9 available publicly. I do see that it has added support for Direct2D and DirectWrite, something not available in Windows XP. That doesn't mean that XP will not be supported, considering the number of users that have Windows XP.

Furthermore, Windows XP is in "Extended Support" until 2014, which is a notch back from "Mainstream Support". Again, it's not mainstream support but it is "support".

I also found this video with an Internet Explorer 9 demo (starts at 40:00)

http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/KEY02

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