I'd be curious to know the breakout for Ars Technica readers. We are all obviously super smart and savvy, and would never, in a million years, use an obsolete OS like XP. But I'd like to see the ...

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Internet Explorer 11 was never Windows 10’s primary browser—that would be the old, pre-Chromium version of Microsoft Edge. But IE did continue to ship with Windows 10 for compatibility reasons, and ...