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Goodbye Internet Explorer: Microsoft To End The Browser By August 2021
Microsoft is ending the 25-year-old browser.
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Goodbye Internet Explorer: Microsoft To End The Browser By August 2021 (Note: Ending support for apps and services, not entire browser)
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It's useful for legacy websites. One of the big things about firefox when it came out was that it was actually going to follow web standards. IE didn't, and as it was dominant webdevs had to write to make their sites work on IE rather than to standards. IE compatibility view is the only way to make some of that crap work, so it's still used a lot in the business world. Plus silverlight sites.
I think only people with old computers who are not tech savvy use it though. and even then a lot of them use chrome as google have been tricking people into using chrome for years now.
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Still the default browser at a lot of companies due to legacy apps.
If this follows typical MS patterns of trying to phase out old systems for new ones, we will still have IE kicking around in 2 decades after enough people complain "No, wait - we actually still need this! I mean, we could do what the rest of the world did and update from old legacy applications & systems and train on new, universally supported versions/alternatives but that's a lot of work we don't want to do so back off.".
Seriously people PowerShell is so much better, embrace it!
Seriously people PowerShell is so much better, embrace it!
In my office we still use IE11 for certain applications that do not properly support modern browsers. I yearn for the day it is truly gone.
That's why they've added IE into Edge
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Microsoft is building Internet Explorer into its new Chromium Edge, adding new features
New privacy and collections features are coming to Edge.
www.theverge.com
Too many people still use IE. I work on games that still have a Facebook gaming presence and we have enough customers still on IE11 that we have to keep 2 versions of the games working so we can keep these customers playing in Flash and everyone else upgraded to HTML5. (IE11 does not play well with some HTML5 features).
I just want to say that I've been using Edge for the last few weeks and I'm loving it, it consumes a LOT less battery than Chrome. If you use a notebook you need to give it a try.
Ive mostly been on the tech world in my career. MacBooks galore lol. Some Windows users, but Chrome dominates there.
Fucking yeeeeees
Fuck IE
I know a lot of businesses still use IE but as a vendor you could then at least argue that IE is officially unsupported and dead.
(Fwiw I don't have to deal with customers/clients still using IE, but some of mine still use old Edge (non-chromium) and that's also kind of a pain)
Fuck IE
I know a lot of businesses still use IE but as a vendor you could then at least argue that IE is officially unsupported and dead.
(Fwiw I don't have to deal with customers/clients still using IE, but some of mine still use old Edge (non-chromium) and that's also kind of a pain)
I work at a library and our software still runs on IE. At least now they are finally forced to change.
We have online services at work that work exclusively with Internet Explorer.
I completely forgot that this was happening, thanks for reminding me <3 - I'm divided on whether I think it's a good thing or not. At some point it just needs to be taken off life support, and folks have been given plenty enough time to see what direction the wind is blowing at this point. I still maintain that it's been a long time coming for corporations to finally start rewriting old proprietary web apps, or just switching to newer commercial alternatives.That's why they've added IE into Edge
Microsoft is building Internet Explorer into its new Chromium Edge, adding new features
New privacy and collections features are coming to Edge.
No shit these news saved me a bunch of work just last wednesday
One less evergreen browser i have to care about
One less evergreen browser i have to care about
Yep
What is Internet Explorer mode?
Learn how Internet Explorer mode in Microsoft Edge provides access to sites that need Internet Explorer 11 and access to modern sites.
docs.microsoft.com
Yes, it's useful to get people on Edge as the default browser and have people only running one with IE tabs v. having to launch IE for some old app. Can be set by set via company policies.
Exactly, IE11 is still supported until Windows 10's end of life. However, if Microsoft themselves are not supporting the browser in their web applications, it makes it much easier for other companies to argue that they don't need to support the browser either, so it's a big step forwards in general.
Dropping IE support on a website also means that ES5 can be laid to rest as IE is the only major browser not supporting ES6, so a lot of old compatibility shims and non-native module systems go out of the window and the amount of Javascript code decreases by quite a large percentage, speeding up websites and lowering bandwidth usage.
While it's not a firm death for IE, it's at least a big opportunity for other companies to stop supporting it on their own websites too, with positive consequences.
If there ever was a chart that perfectly embodied the phrase 'out of the frying pan into the fire', this would be it, lol.
Well, only starting this year on the public release channel.