Nikolai Mavrenkov already created a good description of the problem on Stack Overflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/36893449/textarea-placeholder-isnt-shown-in-ie-11-being-rendered-using-react

I just can confirm it breaks in IE11, but works in IE10 (and other browsers) with React v15.0.2.

* @param {ReactReconcileTransaction} transaction
   * @param {ReactElement} prevElement
   * @param {ReactElement} nextElement
   * @internal
   * @overridable
   */
  updateComponent: function(transaction, prevElement, nextElement, context) {
    var lastProps = prevElement.props;
    var nextProps = this._currentElement.props;
    switch (this._tag) {
      case 'input':
        lastProps = ReactDOMInput.getHostProps(this, lastProps);
        nextProps = ReactDOMInput.getHostProps(this, nextProps);
        break;
      case 'option':
        lastProps = ReactDOMOption.getHostProps(this, lastProps);
        nextProps = ReactDOMOption.getHostProps(this, nextProps);
        break;
      case 'select':
        lastProps = ReactDOMSelect.getHostProps(this, lastProps);
        nextProps = ReactDOMSelect.getHostProps(this, nextProps);
        break;
      case 'textarea':
        lastProps = ReactDOMTextarea.getHostProps(this, lastProps);
        nextProps = ReactDOMTextarea.getHostProps(this, nextProps);
        break;
      default:
        if (typeof lastProps.onClick !== 'function' &&
            typeof nextProps.onClick === 'function') {
          transaction.getReactMountReady().enqueue(