02/08/2010 04:27:00 PM EST

It is not Google's fault that people want to be cheap and have hardware obsolete literally 6 times over or refuse to download a FREE and easy upgrade to IE 8. At a point you have to say, dude, get with the program!

United StatesPhil

09/30/2010 08:52:24 PM EST

Actually I think it is very foolish for google to break even their lousy search screen on older browsers. The old code was sleek and admirable (and would be very very easy to keep on another page for screen readers and old browsers), the new code is irritating and contrary to what they say, power users won't appreciate having a list of the top search entries pop up, I can only think of twice that has actually matched my search. Also googles search accuracy has become woefully poor as of late, cluttered with paid ads as opposed to what I am actually looking for which is usually down on page 5 or 10. Older browsers are 1. Fast and use few resources 2. Many times immune to the latest exploits because they simply cannot run them, my 98 box was immune to the latest chinese virus Personally I love having an old incompatible browser on many pages because garbage simply doesn't work and only the content is visible (AKA the stuff I want) Bandwidth is still money and this BS of making a 14 character webpage take up 300k of bandwidth is just stupid. Also many of us use proprietary software that simply won't work under MS's new OS and is no longer sold or available in a new form, my databases and text distortion software have no modern equivalent in XP. I still have an XP box but I use my 98 box (which runs on modern hardware) much much more often. Many games, utilities and my business software all only work on 9x, not XP.

United StatesRyan