Google announces end-support for Internet Explorer 9

DigitalSENSE Business News:

Google has announced its discontinued support for Internet Explorer (IE) version 9 in Google Apps store, including its business, education and government editions.

Equally, Google disclosed it has stopped all testing and engineering work related to IE9, given that IE11 was released on October 17 along with Windows 8.1 by Microsoft Corporation.

DigitalSENSE Business News gathered that this means IE9 users who access Gmail and other Google Apps services will be notified “within the next few weeks” that they need to upgrade to a more modern browser. Google says this will either happen through an in-product notification message or an interstitial page.

Official statement sighted by DigitalSENSE Business News read in part “We would like to remind you of the Google Apps browser support policy, the set of guidelines for Google Apps services interoperability support. 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.”

DigitalSENSE Business News recalls that IE9 was released on March 14, 2011, although it was not tied to a specific Windows release as most IE versions are, but Microsoft only made it available for Windows Vista and Windows 7.

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