Posted on 01/29/2019 1:03:45 PM PST by dayglored
Windows Server 2012 admins should crank it up to 11
Microsoft has warned that it isn't only Windows 7 for the chop in 2020. Unloved Internet Explorer 10 will be joining it. Finally.
Internet Explorer 10 first appeared back in 2012 and in 2016 Microsoft made a concerted effort to kill the thing by focusing its support efforts on Internet Explorer 11. Anything not Edge-related or without "11" after it would no longer be supported.
However, not every operating system was capable of actually running Internet Explorer 11 and Microsoft infamously restricted its Edge browser to Windows 10 (and later iOS and Android). Notable exceptions to the IE10 crackdown were Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8 Embedded.
At this point administrators will doubtless be shuddering at the memory of having to run Internet Explorer in their pristine Server environment in order to get access to some recalcitrant function or component.
Alas, the shuddering must resume since after a two-year stay of execution, Microsoft has decided that IE10 must be stamped out completely. Windows Embedded 8 Standard and Windows Server 2012 will remain supported until 2023 after all, and keeping IE10 patched for another four years is doubtless keeping the engineers awake at night.
Microsoft has therefore warned that as well killing off Windows 7 in 2020, enterprises that prefer to take a slower path will have to update IE on their 2012 Servers, since IE10 support will finally end for everything in January 2020.
Unlike Windows 7, you won't even be able to pay for patches.
Over the course of the northern hemisphere's spring, Microsoft will make IE11 available for Server 2012 admins to play with via the Microsoft Update Catalog and also the Update Service. This would be a good a time as any to enable Enterprise Mode to make the browser behave like older versions of IE for those pesky corporate intranet applications that insist on a specific incarnation of a specific renderer. You have until 2020 to leave IE10 behind.
Or you could make Microsoft very happy by migrating to Windows Sever 2016 or 2019, which both have IE11 raring to go in their Long-Term Servicing Branch (LTSB) editions. ®
Does that mean I won’t continually get updates that won’t update and/or the wrong links?
Looking harder at Linux.
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None too soon.
That’s what we will do. Apple. Sick of Microsoft and Gates killing our computer every 6 months with forced “updates” we cannot block and it can’t handle. And we have a lot of memory. Then finding someone we have to pay to cleanup the mess. Then having to re-set all of our dozens of password-protected sites. SOB!
The MS update is Internet Explorer 11, or Edge, soon to be built on the engine that powers Google's Chrome - all of which are vastly inferior to Firefox ESR, as is Firefox Quantum, at least if you are a type of "power user" who wants a utility truck vs. a race car, and are willing to run more than browser if the highest security is a concern. .
None of the above even enable multiple tab rows, and some browsers do not provide for changing ctrl+tab to toggle btwn more recently accessed tabs
You can block them , and I would propose that if you system can’t handle them then your equipment is too old or needs driver updates. And if you are getting viruses, then it is likely some users are "driving" to the wrong sites. You can build a fairly fast new PC for under 500 , and with no bloatware, while i think with Apple your hardware choices are rather restricted.
Why the hell can’t Microsoft leave good working things alone?
They took out my Windows 7 which was nice and put in a corrupted Windows 8. Now they are going to take that out and put in another half-assed program I don’t really need or want.
Hell, I’d prefer to go back to Wordperfect 7 and still have discs for it. IT WORKED WELL.
Is there any law in business or govt that says “If it works well, let’s fuck it up”?
Experimenting with the https://color.firefox.com extension, among others, with the Arc dark theme. Thank God.
There’s also Palemoon - palemoon.org
It’s curious that Microsoft is going with Google’s chrome as the foundation of their browser.
There’s a move on, by chrome. To ban all ad blocking plug ins. Have to wonder if google didn’t pay Microsoft off.
Why is there a constant tweaking and improving a platform when it works just fine for most users ? (gimmee back my Win98SE)
I think I asked this question about five or six years ago and was told that there were features in newer OS that SOME people preferred or needed.
How many of those people actually exist outside of us politically engaged / gaming junkies that surf FR, play a few addicting games ALL THE FRIKKIN' TIME, and poke around whatever just interests us because it is the information highway ?
I know NO one that needs or wants a series XL niacin enhanced, bootable dogtray with IO AI and LMNOP attributes.
But some genius in Microsoft certainly thinks every one needs it and will pull our perfectly good OS to flood the market with useless (to us) crap.
I found the ad blocker less effective than the simple MVSP host file , though I edit mine (after using a right click "Take Ownership tweak" (see bottom of page for script you can download and run). The host file is in C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc in Win. 7-10.
See here http://www.wpuniverse.com/vb/showthread.php?37511-WordPerfect-X7-and-Windows-10 But there is no need for vulgar language, which lowers the quality of the thread.
The fundamental problem is one of definition. We hire/elect people who do something that they get paid for.
** Lawyers make laws; Legislators legislate. Why would they stop making laws, voluntarily, and put themselves out of a job?
** Designers design; Engineers engineer. Why would they stop designing and engineering, voluntarily, and put themselves out of a job?
The problem is obvious. Unfortunately, there is no solution, except to execute any lawyer, legislator, designer, or engineer who has made something useful and successful, and therefore should be prevented from f*cking it up by continuing to muck with it.
And -that- means that they'd never do anything useful or successful, lest they be executed.
It's a conundrum alright.
The Fiat of the Computer industry.
“Fix it again Tony”
“Unloved Internet Explorer 10 will be joining it. FINALLY.”
Who wants to bet me that it is now just going to get even worse?
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