Posted on 08/18/2020 9:22:59 AM PDT by dayglored
Microsoft’s services will drop support for IE11 in a year
Microsoft will end support for Internet Explorer 11 across its Microsoft 365 apps and services next year. In exactly a year, on August 17th, 2021, Internet Explorer 11 will no longer be supported for Microsoft’s online services like Office 365, OneDrive, Outlook, and more. Microsoft is also ending support for Internet Explorer 11 with the Microsoft Teams web app later this year, with support ending on November 30th.
While it’s still going to take some time to pry enterprise users of Internet Explorer 11 away, Microsoft is hoping that the new Internet Explorer legacy mode in the Chromium-based Microsoft Edge browser will help. It will continue to let businesses access old sites that were specifically built for Internet Explorer, until Microsoft fully drops support for Internet Explorer 11 within Windows 10. Microsoft’s move to stop supporting Internet Explorer 11 with its main web properties is a good first step, though.
Legacy Edge will go away next March
Alongside the support changes, Microsoft is also planning to drop support for its existing legacy version of Microsoft Edge on March 9th, 2021. After the end of support date, the legacy version of Edge will no longer receive security updates. Microsoft has been moving existing Windows 10 users over to new its Chromium-based Edge browser, and the company says new devices and future Windows feature updates will all include the new Edge browser.
Microsoft has been working on killing off Internet Explorer usage and support for years now. The company first unveiled its new Edge browser back in 2015, codenamed at the time Project Spartan. It was the beginning of the end for the Internet Explorer brand. Microsoft has since labeled Internet Explorer a “compatibility solution” rather than a browser and encouraged businesses to stop using the aging browser.
Make everything obsolete so the idiots will have to pay for every update.
Microsoft ruined IE...
No worries, for me anyway. As long as they keep on supporting my Windows 98 machine I’m good to go.
Now if I could only figure out how to get rid of this error message.
I am SO stealing that graphic.
Turns out we didn’t need the Edge.
Honestly I don’t think I ever used it. Only thing I do with IE is hit my company’s bug tracking system.
Lol. Clunky IE. Went to Netscape really fast years ago. Sometimes we were forced to use IE, but only used it when absolutely necessary.
“We’re out of ideas other than charging you more.”
There will be a group-policy method for using IE tabs in the new Edge Chromium. Also, there’s an extension that does that, too.
Not sure if the group policy method will allow Windows 10 Home users to do that.
It’s a case of Microsoft continuing its support for XBAP’s and such.
IE is superior to edge
Perhaps you would also appreciate the error message I got on my Windows 98 machine last night.
I’m not making this up! It really happened, I tell ya.
Cool. Finally the virus OS is being deprecated. Microsoft is getting out of the OS business just like IBM did.
After promising they’d leave me alone on my home computer with my Win7, they pushed and update that forced Edge on me. I haven’t opened it yet. IE11, Brave, Chrome, and the poorly run Firefox seem to be all I need. With, of course, a secreted away really old SeaMonkey for rare occaisions.
At work, we are not allowed to use Edge at all for security reasons.
they keep changing their product names but the products themselves appear very much the same...
why not keep internet explorer and just call the “new” version “New Improved Internet Explorer” like, say, “New Improved Tide which cleans clothes just as well and no better than “Old Unimproved Tide” did
Good riddance to both POSs.
Many years ago I ran across one that I can't find right offhand, but it was like this:
Title bar: "Unrecoverable System Error"
Icon: Steaming pile of poo, complete with buzzing flies
Message: "You really don't want to know what just happened."
Three buttons: "Abort", "Ignore", and "Trash My FAT".
Always avoided IE use. Had it for the infrequent times Firefox did not like some website, but that has gone away.
Once you go Mac you never go back.
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