Good bye, IE8, Google Apps leaves you

Summary

Google Apps is discontinuing support for Internet Explorer 8 and older versions, effective November 15, 2012, impacting all user segments including commercial, education, and government. This change aligns with Google's rolling browser support policy, which maintains compatibility with the latest Chrome, and the current and prior major releases of Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Safari. The upcoming release of Internet Explorer 10 on October 26, 2012, prompts the deprecation of IE8. Users attempting to access Google Apps services with IE8 after the deadline will be prompted to upgrade their browser. Developers should ensure their applications and user bases are prepared for this transition by encouraging upgrades to supported browsers.

Google Apps team annouced not supporting IE 8 and lower version of IE, this will affect every Google App user including commercial, education and government. The time for leaving IE 8 is 15 November, at that time, IE 10 will be released for a few weeks.

Google Apps team explained here:

As we announced last year, we support the latest version of Google Chrome (which automatically updates whenever it detects that a new version of the browser is available) as well as the current and prior major release of Firefox, Internet Explorer and Safari on a rolling basis. Each time a new version of one of these browsers is released, we begin supporting the update and stop supporting the third-oldest version.

Internet Explorer 10 launches on 10/26/2012, and as a result, we will discontinue support for Internet Explorer 8 shortly afterwards, on 11/15/2012. After this date users accessing Google Apps services using Internet Explorer 8 will see a message recommending that they upgrade their browser.

For those who are still using IE 8 or lower version of IE, please upgrade your IE to latest version as soon as possible to avoid any issues caused.

Reference : http://www.36kr.com/p/153373.html

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