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 Here are some tips to consider and to help you write a great report:
 
-* `_s` supports Internet Explorer 9 and greater, as well as the latest two versions of all other major browsers.
+* `_s` supports Microsoft Internet Explorer 11 and Edge, as well as the latest two versions of all other major browsers.
 * `_s` is backwards compatible with the two versions prior to the current stable version of WordPress.
 * `_s` uses HTML5 markup.
 * We decided not to include translations [[#50](https://github.com/Automattic/_s/pull/50)] beyond the exisiting `_s.pot` file, a RTL stylesheet [[#263](https://github.com/Automattic/_s/pull/263)], or editor styles [[#225](https://github.com/Automattic/_s/pull/225)], as they are likely to change during development of an `_s`-based theme.