On 14.06.2012, 18:20 Derric wrote:
No, I'm pretty sure that's not true at all. Even if they are running a
pirated version they can still update their browsers.
Not sure about Internet Explorer 8, but as of October 2007, you don't need a genuine copy of Windows XP to move from IE6 to IE7. [1]
I'm not sure when they made this change, but it appears that you may also download IE8 without having a genuine copy of Windows these days [2].
[1] https://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2007/10/04/internet-explorer-7-update.as px?Redirected=true [2] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=43
Furthermore, whatever Windows you have or whether you paid for it or not, there are lots of free browsers that are much better than even newest IE anyway. But in any case, we must not annoy any significant part of our audience.