Please support Internet Explorer 8 when using Kendo-Angular by supporting Angular 1.2.* branch as well.
AngularJS 1.2.x is supported with versions of Kendo UI prior to Q3 2014 (version number 2014.3.1119). If IE8 support is important for you, you may consider using relevant older Kendo UI version. The decision for not supporting IE8 with AngularJS 1.3+ was made by the Angular team, Milan.
As stated, we do support Angular 1.2.x with Kendo UI versions prior to 2014.3.1119. There's no need to develop these versions further for newer Angular 1.2.x versions support.
Yes, but they still support the branch 1.2.* and continue developing it (1.2.28 was released after 1.3.0). It's the same story like JQuery 1.X branch vs. 2.X branch.