Google is the first major online software maker to drop 2009's IE8 from a support list. Last month, Net Applications measured XP's global usage share at 42.5%, just behind the three-year-old Windows 7's 42.8%. But like IE8, Windows XP remains a major presence. Windows XP faces its own end-of-life cutoff Microsoft will serve users with that operating system's final security update in April 2014. Of those who ran one version or another of IE, nearly half, or 47%, ran IE8 in August.
IE8, on the other hand, was the most widely-used browser edition in the world last month, with a usage share of 25%. Last year, when Google said it would stop supporting IE7, that edition accounted for just 7% of all browsers used worldwide, according to Web analytics firm Net Applications.
Giving up on IE8, however, is markedly different than dumping IE7.
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