Its not ALL IE versions... 9 and 10 will still work, but not developed specifically for....

As long as IE sticks to standards and doesn't have quirks, hence dropped support.

By that logic they are dropping all support for all browsers. They will make sure it works cross browser, just not with the stuff that is IE only.

Old news, already seen several times here and everywhere.

It seems to be news to lots of ppl (other than me as well) it went mini viral on twitter: https://twitter.com/search/realtime?q=jquery+conference&...

Already June 2012 - http://blog.jquery.com/2012/06/28/jquery-core-version-1-9-an...

First time I heard about it

That's put in a very misleading way. It's dropping all special support for Internet Explorer. That just means that there will be problems with many things before IE9.

"Richard pointed out that 55.7% of all webpages now use jQuery, and if you exclude from this group pages that don’t use JavaScript then it is used in an astonishing 90.7% of all webpages!"

Really? I find this hard to believe.