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on Friday August 21 2020, @01:04AM
from the out-with-the-old-in-with-the-new dept.
from the out-with-the-old-in-with-the-new dept.
Microsoft 365 apps to end Internet Explorer support next year:
Internet Explorer's days have been numbered since Microsoft launched its Edge browser five years ago. Microsoft appears to be another step toward closer to retiring the web browser with the announcement its Microsoft 365 apps suite will end support for Internet Explorer 11 on Aug. 17, 2021, the company said Monday.
Users of Microsoft's Teams chat and collaboration service will lose IE 11 support a bit earlier, on Nov. 30, Microsoft said in a blog post. Microsoft also said it would end support for the Microsoft Edge Legacy desktop app on March 9, 2021.
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by ledow on Friday August 21 2020, @08:24AM (2 children)
Like Flash... just die already.
Until you actually just set ONE date, and kill it on that date, people will keep kicking it further down the line.
Flash has been dead to me for nearly 10 years now.
IE has been dead for nearly as long.
I literally laugh and say "Are you serious?!" whenever something suggests I should use it (our bank tried to tell us that, until I laughed at them, and then they said "Oh, it works in Firefox ESR too"... so just it's the same ActiveX control, isn't it?).
Don't bank, purchase or browse on sites that only take ancient browsers, and only one of them at that. Even internal.
I have a couple of old internal services that only work web-wise on IE. So I don't use them via that interface. They are ancient (20-year-old codebase), not exposed to users, and provide other avenues. But if they didn't work in other ways, I'd have replaced them by now.
And at home, only a cheap Chinese NVR that sits on a private VLAN with no outgoing connection has an interface that only works in IE - because it loads the video by ActiveX. So I just use a third-party app and/or the RTSP stream over VLC instead, and manage it via the physical mouse if I absolutely need to.
Seriously, just let this stuff die. If you can't do it in HTML, then you need to write real software or provide a real interface (e.g. RTSP, etc.).
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday August 21 2020, @01:08PM (1 child)
And yet, I still see the random "you must have adobe flash to view this media". Thinking - I believe it mostly happens on the BBC. When I see it I just close the tab, of course. There is no good reason to install flash, period.
(Score: 2) by ElizabethGreene on Friday August 21 2020, @08:55PM
Microsoft will be removing Flash in IE and Edge at the end of this year. I can't wait! :)