Hopefully this year yields the death of IE. When I say death of IE I mean anyone who is using a version of the browser that is not IE9 or above. Almost all previous versions lack any kind of web standards compliancy. Even Microsoft has ploughed money into ridding the world of their own creation, they baked a cake to celebrate its imminent death.

Now they are forcing people to upgrade to the latest version their computer can use. The only issue there being that some people still use XP! An OS that is nearly 10 years old and can only run IE8. Windows 7 is actually quite a respectable OS to use, and even has some features I would like to see on my Mac. Microsoft needs to get users used to the idea of updating.

I fear Firefox is likely to fall into the same trap Microsoft did with IE; people getting left behind on old outdated versions. This is a real issue with the web moving so fast and new standards being created daily. Only the Webkit browsers seem to be any good at staying up to date. Chrome Automatically updates and Safari updates are pushed by Apple through the OS regularly.