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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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* m2 stares at the monitor... it looks like a hamburger...
m2 - that's a bad sign
(Score: 2) by stretch611 on Friday August 21 2020, @10:59AM (1 child)
I actually made this same point yesterday. [soylentnews.org]
However, there is one huge difference... I wrote it in reference to devs selling software on a particular platform. They are not paid to work on said platform. When you are paying the devs, the devs should build what you want... not what the devs want. Yes, it is their field and you should listen to sound advice... but sound advice is not keeping around flawed tech. (Old systems do not necessarily be replaced, they can work for years... but flawed systems that are incompatible with modern tech has got to go.)
If your devs can only work on obsolete systems with horrible system flaws, it is your own problem for paying them to do that. A corporate entity should pay them to replace it with a better system and replace those developers that can not or will not change/adapt.
Yes, a big thank you to corporate accounting. (I spent many years as a developer in large corporations.) The IT area is nothing more than a money pit. It costs a lot to run and it makes nothing in profit.The whole group should be happy with what little funding we give it. That seems to be the mantra of the board of directors at all corporations except *some* of the ones that sell software.
The fact is, the corporation should be making money. Maybe not this particular year... but over time they would cease to exist if they only lose money. Like it or not, they have to invest in their IT infrastructure, If it breaks, or has a major security breach, they risk losing everything.
Now with 5 covid vaccine shots/boosters altering my DNA :P
(Score: 2) by PiMuNu on Friday August 21 2020, @01:59PM
> Like it or not, they have to invest in their IT infrastructure,
Sure, I agree. I think my point was that MS should continue with backwards compatibility. Of course IT departments should invest in their infrastructure.