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.
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.”
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.
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.
“Microsoft will bid farewell to Internet Explorer and legacy Edge in 2021”
will anyone even notice?
When can we bid farewell to Bill Gates?
The web is crashing for me and becoming more useless. It's tougher every day just to do what some people claim is elementary. There is so much trash, cookies, ads, temporary files, ect, I can't do the things I set out to do because my internet speed is so slow now. I can click on a link and have to wait 10-15 seconds for the little circle to start moving. Sometimes I can be finished reading the article before the ads quit downloading, and other times the circle just stops and freezes the page. Then the browser says (Not Responding). Are others having these problems? Am I the only one? It seems like the dream of surfing the net like in commercials doesn't meet the reality. I know the next response will be Get Linux or a Mac, but I'll never buy a Mac and the learning curve for linux is beyond a 69yo that started with a 286 in 1984 on Dos 3.11. How tough can it be to build a computer that and surf the net without freezing? I've installed Linux on several computers ( maybe 30 times since Ubuntu 5). My last installation was Mint 17 a few months ago. I have a Raspberry Pi 3 B+ right now that is nothing more than a doc reader for my Sunday school lessons, But I have yet to get it networked and can't even get Firefox updated. I have 3 monitors I can't use with Linux. Editing video,...don't know how in Linux. The list is quite impressive on what I can't do with Linux. I refuse to buy a Mac and their OS is basically Linux anyway.
The best I ever did was with XP and later with Windows 7, but they are gone. I even reinstalled Windows 7 and had sites say they wouldn't load because of the browser and there is no alternate browser that will patch 7 to work the new websites.
I hate Windows 10, but that's where we are now.
If I was a coder, I would backward re engineer Windows 7 or XP to have the latest Win 10 kernel that would work with modern drivers and software and the install would be checking boxes for the minimum items you personally want. There's no need for Bloatware and things like Solitaire and others, unless you personally want them. There are many things you must install and can't uninstall to make the size smaller. I've seen a ripped XP install that took about 300 megs total to install and was blazing fast. A rip of Windows 10 with a better looking GUI, IMO would be popular, but I haven't seen one yet.
IE has one “feature” that I routinely use: “send shortcut to desktop.”
I hooked up with CCleaner Browser a few months ago, and use it for all Browsing, except as above.
If I knew how to port everything over to a Linux operating system, I’d do it. I am IT challenged in this regard, however and really not confident I could do it successfully.
I shy away from anything Gargoyle (because it is evil) so I guess I’ll say bye-bye to all MS browsers.
I can live with that ;’}
I use a variety of Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Brave, and if forced “IE Tab+” on Chrome or Firefox.