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Microsoft begs you to stop using Internet Explorer
In a blog post, Microsoft senior cybersecurity architect Chris Jackson said continuing to use Internet Explorer is racking up companies a ton of "technical debt." Essentially, by continuing to use IE, organizations are creating additional costs down the line by selecting the easiest, most convenient solution now rather than the approach that is best for the long term. Jackson laid out a scenario in which a company, choosing the easiest possible route since Internet Explorer 6, goes to make a webpage today and ends up using a 1999 implementation of web standards by default.
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(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 10 2019, @04:19AM (4 children)
Even at the beginning, the browser was a much more complex piece of software than the server. We chuckled at the fact that Netscape gave away the browsers for free, while selling the servers for profit.
Today, html/http/css/javascript/encryption/etc. has gotten so crazy complex, there are no piece of software comparable in complexity with the web browser other than the os/hypervisor. Even Microsoft gave up.
Maybe it's time to invent a better, simpler ecosystem. Because Mozilla will fail.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by jb on Sunday February 10 2019, @05:50AM
...gopher was much more fun anyway!
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 10 2019, @07:19AM (1 child)
Aye, much more complex than the OS, and in the case of Chrime (love that typo), endless rewriting of everything. I guess that is one way to mitigate security holes: never leave any line of source remain for more than three months, so crackers can't rely on a static target.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 10 2019, @09:00AM
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Sunday February 10 2019, @01:08PM
Recall that Cousin Chuck, despite coding in FORTRAN, having a Master's in Architecture from Harvard and having been his high school Valedictorian - yes, it's not just me, my whole entire extended family are smart guys and smart gals - teaches at a graduate school of architecture.
That school's entire website other than its homepage consist of nothing other than PDF documents. The Homepage just barely has enough markup and CSS to esthetically present the links to those Adobe Reader docs.
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