After November 15, 2012, users running IE8 may have difficulty with some features in Google Apps. And as before, many other services and websites - including Gmail and Google Calendar - can also be affected. Applications may stop working completely in IE8.
Google's policy is to support only the current version of a browser, and its preceding version.
Last year, when Google said it would stop supporting IE7, it only accounted for 7% of all browsers used worldwide, according to web analytics company Net Applications . But IE8 is different. IE8 is the most widely used browser version in the world in August 2012, with a 25% market share. Among those running one of the many different versions of IE, nearly half - 47% - ran IE8 in August 2012.
IE8 users, especially those running Windows XP, can switch to another browser, like the most recent versions of Firefox (Mozilla), Chrome (Google) or Opera (Opera Software's). to run Google Apps.
Google Apps' plan to end this support will not affect access to Google's search website when using older browsers.