Google is dropping support for IE8, not Microsoft. If you use many Google Apps it will affect you, otherwise not so much.

[Google is the first major online software maker to drop 2009's IE8 from a support list. Microsoft, for instance, has committed to supporting IE8 on Windows 7 until 2020.]

[IE8 users, particularly those running Windows XP, can switch to another browser, including the most recent versions of Mozilla's Firefox, or Opera Software's Opera, to run Google Apps.]
http://www.computerworld.com/s/artic...taxonomyId=125

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If you have never tried any of the other browsers that are available , I suggest Firefox, it is so much quicker than IE.
Very easy to install & free of course.
You can keep IE and have other browsers also, just open the one you want to use. I have 3 browsers installed to choose from , but Firefox is always my main one.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/

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https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/